“I needed to know that Death was here, in the room, and that I was too fast, too young, and too smart for him.”

“I smile sadly, in light of what came nextto think that I told herIf you can just hang on, things are bound to improveshe made me a liar, too--the woman who dug the holeI've been trying to write myself out ofever since”

“HOGAN-No, I wouldn't think it, but my motto in life is never trust anyone too far, not even myself.”

“Seven characters are too many for a ten-minute play. It'll be twenty minutes long! Fuck it. One of them is dead and the others can all talk fast.”

“It was far too absurd to die of a Tuesday”

“Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the sidewalk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your parent was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.”

“He thinks money spent on a home is money wasted. He's lived too much in hotels. Never the best hotels, of course. Second-rate hotels. He doesn't understand a home. He doesn't feel at home in it. And yet, he wants a home. He's even proud of having this shabby place. He loves it here.”