I Never Used To Kill

The Orthodoxy Of America Is As Rigid As That Of Soviet Russia. There Is One Point Of View Allowed. If You Start A Conversation From Another Point Of View, The Words Dry In Your Mouth.

[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.

The Great Mystery Of Adaptation Is That True Fidelity Can Only Be Achieved Through Lavish Promiscuity.

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.

[david] Mamet's The Writer I Admire Most But He's Way Off From When He Tries To Talk About What The Moral Appeal Of Liberal Thought Is. His Heart Is Not In It.