“It wasn't a question of if I get killed, it was merely a question of when I get killed.”
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“When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.”
It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.'
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Press conference (16 September 2015)
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“The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.”
As quoted in a review of "The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? in Broadway Yearbook 2001-2002 (2003) by Steven Suskin, p. 195