I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying theres nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. Theres a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of. – Hugh Leonard
My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father. – Hugh Leonard
My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play. – Hugh Leonard
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past. – Hugh Leonard
I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess. – Elizabeth Wurtzel