All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.
My parents didn't really know one another.
Laughter can bring a new perspective.
Unless you go through all the genuine angers you feel, both justified and unjustified, the feelings of love that you have will not have any legitimate base and will be at least partially false. Plus, eventually you will go crazy.
On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.
I write intuitively, and with most of my plays, I don't know what is always going to happen. This means I can sometimes go off on a wrong tangent, and with luck then rewrite it in a better direction. But it means I sometimes surprise myself as I'm going along.
So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find with my absurdist plays that I was actually writing about my family, but so disguised I didn't realize it myself.
We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.
Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.