I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.
--Tony Kushner
If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware there's a menace. That's costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure.
--Tony Kushner
In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.
--Tony Kushner
It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.
--Tony Kushner
My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can't despise my whole life.
--Tony Kushner
Nothing's lost forever.
--Tony Kushner
One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.
--Tony Kushner
Only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.
--Tony Kushner
People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.
--Tony Kushner
Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.
--Tony Kushner
The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.
--Tony Kushner
Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.
--Tony Kushner
We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.
--Tony Kushner
You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.
--Tony Kushner
You have to ask hard questions.
--Tony Kushner
You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.
--Tony Kushner
You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.
--Tony Kushner
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