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ANGEL: I I I I
Am the Bird of America, the Bald Eagle,
Continental Principality,
LUMEN PHOSPHOR FLUOR CANDLE! — Tony Kushner

Sorry wrong room. (Prior exits, goes to Belize.) PRIOR (Despairing): He's the Marlboro Man. BELIZE: Oooh, I wanna see. — Tony Kushner

It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do. — Tony Kushner

One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are. — Tony Kushner

I've always wondered ... what if it really was Him, and He decided I wasn't worth it? — Tony Kushner

It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln. — Tony Kushner

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough. — Tony Kushner

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations. — Tony Kushner

The fountain of Bethesda will flow again. And I told him I would personally take him there to bathe. We will all bathe ourselves clean. — Tony Kushner

God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was. — Tony Kushner

K.S., baby. Lesion number one. Lookit. The wine-dark kiss of the angel of death. — Tony Kushner

In some ways [the Internet]'s definitely an enemy. — Tony Kushner

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead. — Tony Kushner

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people. — Tony Kushner

I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic. — Tony Kushner

I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die — Tony Kushner

I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort. — Tony Kushner

Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity. — Tony Kushner

You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go. — Tony Kushner

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions. — Tony Kushner

Purple? Boy, what kind of a homosexual are you, anyway? That's not purple, Mary, that color up there is mauve. — Tony Kushner

Real love isn't ever ambivalent, — Tony Kushner

I never imagined losing my mind was going to be such hard work. — Tony Kushner

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies. — Tony Kushner

MATAMORE: I never fight with my love face on,
I worry that it might get scratched. — Tony Kushner

Opium is the perfect drug for people who want to remain articulate while being completely trivial. — Tony Kushner

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man. — Tony Kushner

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies. — Tony Kushner

I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing. — Tony Kushner

I don't know what will happen to me without you. Only you. Only you love me. Out of everyone in the world. — Tony Kushner

YOU HAVE TO ASK HARD QUESTIONS. — Tony Kushner

The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me. — Tony Kushner

I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me. — Tony Kushner

It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet. — Tony Kushner

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility. — Tony Kushner

JOE: You said my wife. And I want to know, is she -
PRIOR: TALK TO HER YOURSELF, BULLWINKLE! WHAT DO I LOOK LIKE A MARRIAGE COUNSELOR? — Tony Kushner

Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye? — Tony Kushner

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history. — Tony Kushner

Harper: You, the one part of
the real world I wasn't allergic to. — Tony Kushner

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches. — Tony Kushner

At least I never voted Republican. -Tony Kushner — Larry Smith

The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work. — Tony Kushner

Nothing's lost forever. — Tony Kushner

My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can't despise my whole life. — 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

The body is the garden of the soul. — Tony Kushner

A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament. — Tony Kushner

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution. — Tony Kushner

Children of the new morning, criminal minds. Selfish and greedy and loveless and blind. — Tony Kushner

A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been. — 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

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

I've been so lucky to work with some great, great writers: Tony Kushner and Yasmina Reza. — Marcia Gay Harden

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around. — Tony Kushner

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater. — Tony Kushner

Seven characters are too many for a ten-minute play. It'll be twenty minutes long! Fuck it. One of them is dead and the others can all talk fast. — Tony Kushner

Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction. — Tony Kushner

I played Laura Bush in a Tony Kushner piece, and afterward, I think my phones got tapped. — Marcia Gay Harden

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work. — Tony Kushner

HARPER: I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die. But there's still the rest of you. — Tony Kushner

Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed. — Tony Campolo

PRIOR (An awestruck whisper): God almighty.
Very Steven Spielberg. — Tony Kushner

If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with — Tony Kushner

You're a battered heart, bleeding life in the universe of wounds. — Tony Kushner