Tony Kushner

Real love isn't ever ambivalent,

— Tony Kushner

“YOU HAVE TO ASK HARD QUESTIONS.”

— Tony Kushner

The body is the garden of the soul.

— Tony Kushner

Nothing's lost forever.

— Tony Kushner

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

— Tony Kushner

“Children of the new morning, criminal minds. Selfish and greedy and loveless and blind.”

— Tony Kushner

“You’re a battered heart, bleeding life in the universe of wounds.”

— Tony Kushner

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

— Tony Kushner

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

— Tony Kushner

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

— Tony Kushner

“JOE: Anything. Whatever you want. I can give up anything. My skin.”

— Tony Kushner

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

— 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

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

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art…

— Tony Kushner

Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will…

— Tony Kushner

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

— Tony Kushner

“I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away.…

— Tony Kushner

I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable and evil. It's only a…

— 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

One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to…

— Tony Kushner

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many…

— Tony Kushner

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But…

— Tony Kushner

We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if…

— Tony Kushner

There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial…

— Tony Kushner

The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist.…

— Tony Kushner

I'm in an odd place right now in New York where I routinely get trashed by every daily drama critic and have…

— Tony Kushner

When I was younger, I used to be very impatient with anyone who wasn't doing overtly political work. I've since come to…

— Tony Kushner

“Night flight to San Francisco; chase the moon across America. God, it’s been years since I was on a plane. When we…

— Tony Kushner

“AGNES EGGLING: mid- to late 30s; preferably heavyset. Bit player / character actress in the German film industry. GREGOR BAZWALD (BAZ): early…

— Tony Kushner

Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness,…

— Tony Kushner

“ROY [COHN]:Please. Let me finish. Few people know this and I’m telling you this only because. . . . I’m not afraid…

— Tony Kushner

“If He ever did come back, if He ever dared to show His face, or his Glyph, or whatever in the Garden…

— Tony Kushner

“Belize: Hell or heaven? [Roy indicates "Heaven" through a glance] Belize: Like San Francisco. Roy Cohn: A city. Good. I was worried...…

— Tony Kushner

Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So…

— Tony Kushner

I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules…

— Tony Kushner

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

— Tony Kushner

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

— Tony Kushner

“It's the price of rootlessness. Motion sickness. The only cure: to keep moving.”

— Tony Kushner

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

— Tony Kushner