Nanci Sampogna

“What marriage doesn't involve uncountable accretions, a language of gestures, a sense of recognition sharp as a toothache? Unhappy, sure. What couple isn't unhappy, at least part of the time? But how can the divorce rate be, as they say, skyrocketing? How miserable would you have to get to be able to bear the actual separation, to go off and live your life so utterly unrecognized?”
― Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall

“...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“[No Villain] was about an industrial conflict and a father and his two sons, the most autobiographical dramatic work I would ever write.

The truth of the matter is that I never had an argument with my father. That was part of the problem. See, we could never come to a fruitful conflict. So it took my work [No Villain] to do that.

From the beginning the idea of writing a play was a kind of license to say the unspeakable.”
― Arthur Miller

“The Earl of Lancaster loudly spoke, “Piers Gaveston, this court finds you guilty of treason, of sodomy and sedition as well as many other crimes against God! You shall be taken to Blacklow Hill, which shall by your place of execution, and you shall be put to death by two of my Welsh soldiers! May God have mercy upon your soul!”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen