Alex Burger

“The purpose of theatre is to wound our memory so we can remember.”

–Paula Vogel

“The human spirit is like a parachute – it works best when wide open.”

–quote from an Arabic bookstore in Geneva

“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”

–Oscar Wilde

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

–Oscar Wilde

“No worthy problem is ever solved in the plane of its original conception.”

–Albert Einstein

“If you start out to write a poem about two dogs fucking, and you write a poem about two dogs fucking – then you wrote a poem about two dogs fucking.”

–Gerald Stern

“The writer is that person who, embarking upon her task, does not know what to do.”

–Donald Barthelme

“Hollywood is the place on earth where you can get stabbed in the back while you’re climbing a ladder.”

–William Faulkner

“In war, truth is the first casualty.”

–Aeschylus

“I asked him to marry me once. He told me he couldn’t because this would be all that there was.”

–Patty Larkin