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If You Know That Life Is Basically Going To Be Horrendously Difficult, At Best, And All But Unlivable At Worst, Or Possibly Even Unlivable, Do You Go On? And The Choice To Go On Is The Only Thing That I Think Can Be Called Hope. Because If Hope Isn't Forced To Encounter The Worst Possibility, Then It's A Lie.

The White Cracker Who Wrote The National Anthem Knew What He Was Doing. He Set The Word "free" To A Note So High Nobody Could Reach It. That Was Deliberate.

The Act Of Thinking And Interpreting Is So Central To Judaism That It Makes More Sense That We've Become People Like Woody Allen - Thinkers And Talkers And Drafters Of Law.

I Don't Think You Have To Earn Your Income As An Artist To Be An Artist. But If You Are An Artist, Then Art Is What You Do, Whether Or Not You're Paid For Doing It; It Is What You Do, Not What You Are. I Regard Artist Not As A Description Of Temperament But As A Category Of Profession, Of Vocation.

The Kind Of Theater That I Do Is Sort Of ‘narrative Realism,’ Which I Think In The Broadest Sense Is Legitimate To Say Is Mainstream. I Mean, In A Certain Sense, Suzan-lori's Plays Have Had Mainstream Levels Of Success. But Suzan-lori Is In Some Ways Not A Narrative Realist.