“You can't live in the world without an idea of the world, but it's living that makes the ideas. You can't wait… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
There are certainly people for whom politics is not a category that helps you understand human existence. In fact, it's kind of… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and directed work… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The dreams of the left are always beautiful - the imagining of a better world, the damnation of the present one. This… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“Fabulous. If you possess it, you don’t need to ask what it is. When you attempt to delineate it, you move away from it.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math skills, and… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“If the snake sheds his skin before a new skin is ready, naked he will be in the world, prey to the forces of… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“MATAMORE: I never fight with my love face on, I worry that it might get scratched.” — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“I never really feel that I’m stuck. I actually think that people are never stuck, there’s no such thing as writers block, I think… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen -… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“I've lived through such terrible times and there are people who live through much worse. But you see them living anyway. When they're more… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
