I dont feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that Im a gay man. – Tony Kushner
Im happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was – but its almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with Angels, and it still generates income for me, but its not enough for me to live on and have health insurance. – Tony Kushner
Theres a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility. – Tony Kushner
You have a strange relationship with calamity when youre a writer: you write about it as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and thats a creepy thing to do. – Tony Kushner
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. Its about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And its about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. – Tom Peters