John Guare

“Chaos, this chaos is the given. Order is the dream.”

“Plays are always about the circumstances of the people in them. The greatest plays are about the catastrophic circumstances of the people in them.”

“Six degrees of separation. Between us and everybody else on this planet.”

“I believe that the imagination is the passport that we create to take us into the real world.”

“Writing is a way of getting a second chance at life.”

“A play is a dream that's shared with an audience.”

“I think the only way you can get ahead is to be not afraid to make mistakes.”

“Every person is a new door to a different world.”

“You have to fill your life with all the bad movies and all the bad plays and all the bad books and all the bad music, because it's a lot of killing time to do.”

“Fame is the perversion of the natural human desire for esteem.”