anxiety Quotes

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now.

I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play.

I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection.

You can't go around chasing your own plays and showing up every time somebody does one somewhere. You just cross your fingers and hope that they're OK.

I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong.

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

If I see an actor in a role that is really terrifying, no matter how many times I meet him socially, I'm still frightened of him. I think he's going to hit me.

I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers.