Poetry Is The Key To The Hieroglyphics

What Politicians Want And What Creative Writers Want Will Always Be Profoundly Different, Because I'm Afraid All Politicians, Of Whatever Hue, Want Propaganda, And Writers Want The Truth, And They're Not Compatible.

[via Dolorosa]'s Pushing Broadway As Far As It Can Be Pushed. I Stand Before You As A Reporter, And You Have To Decide Whether I'm An Honest Reporter Or Not. And If You're Convinced That I Am Honest, Then I Think That You Will Listen To Me In A Way That You Wouldn't Have Listened To A Fiction Where Scenes Are Made. . . . I've Thought Quite Long And Hard About What I Want To Say In This Play. And If It Means That Every Single Sentiment That I Produce Is Put Minutely Under An Ideological Microscope, That's Fine.

Writers Always Sound Insufferably Smug When They Sit Back And Assert That Their Job Is Only To Ask Questions And Not To Answer Them. But, In Good Part, It Is True. And Once You Become Committed To One Particular Answer, Your Freedom To Ask New Questions Is Seriously Impaired.

As You Write Plays, You Discover What You Believe. And Until You Know What You Believe, You Can't Write A Play.

My Father Always Said 'there's No Free Lunch.' My Father Was Right. There's No Free Lunch And There's No Free Market. The Market Is Rigged, The Market Is Always Rigged, And The Rigging Is In Favour Of The People Who Run The Market. That's What The Market Is. It's A Bent Casino. The House Always Wins.