"Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions."
— Tony Kushner (Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches)

"Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone...Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way."
— Tony Kushner (Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches)

"The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. "
— Belize, "Angels in America" by Tony Kushner

"Words are doctors for the diseased temper."
— Aeschylus

"The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
don't belong to English
though I belong nowhere else"
— Gustavo Perez Firmat (Bilingual Blues: Poems, 1981-1994)

"No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached."
— Amy Tan

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
— Nelson Mandela