Author: Tony Kushner

Cites

• Stanley Kunitz (2)
  • IN: Angels in America Part One: Millenium Approaches (1993) NULL, American
    EPIGRAPH: In a muderous time. the heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking.
    FROM: The Testing-Tree, (1971), Poem, US
  • IN: Angels in America (1993) Play, American
    EPIGRAPH: In a murderous time the heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking.
    FROM: "The Testing Tree", (1971), Poem, US
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1)
  • IN: A Bright Room Called Day (1987) Non-Fiction, History, American
    EPIGRAPH: You know, upon our German stages, / Each man puts on just what he may; / So spare me not upon this day... / So in this narrow house of boarded space / Creation's fullest circle go to pace / And walk, with leisured speed, your spell / Past Heaven, through the Earth, to Hell.
    FROM: Faust, (1790), Play, Germany
• Heinrich Mann (1)
  • IN: A Bright Room Called Day (1987) Non-Fiction, History, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Republic had too much in common with its enemy; the spirit of revenge for Versailles, the fear of communism... But above all the Republic was aware of its own tediousness. The people wanted theatre.
    FROM: quoted in the The Brothers Mann by Nigel Hamilton, (1978), Book, Germany
• Ronald Reagan (1)
  • IN: A Bright Room Called Day (1987) Non-Fiction, History, American
    EPIGRAPH: You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.
    FROM: To a student at University of Fudan, (1984), Conversation, US

Cited by

• Tana French (2)
  • IN: In the Woods (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Probably just somebody's nasty black poodle. But I've always wondered… What if it really was Him, and He decided I wasn't worth it?"
    FROM: A Bright Room Called Day, (1994), Play, US
• Gillian Flynn (1)
  • IN: Gone Girl (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Love is the world’s infinite mutability; lies hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood
    FROM: The Illusion, (1994), Play, US
• Bob Proehl (2)
  • IN: A Hundred Thousand Worlds (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: People who are lonely, people left alone, sit talking nonsense to the air, imagining beautiful systems dying, old fixed orders spiraling apart...
    FROM: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, (1991), Play, US
  • IN: Hundred Thousand Worlds (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: People who are lonely, people left alone, sit talking nonsense to the air, imagining beautiful systems dying, old fixed orders spiraling apart...
    FROM: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, (1991), Play, US