“After all this running away from finished things, I ran into myself as a finished thing. And I’m still running away from finished things.”

“I've finished running from you, Redd. It's time for you to run."
--Alyss”

“One of the interesting things about writing a play is that when you've finished it you have to give it away.”

“While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.”

“I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.”

“Perhaps I need to begin before I can think clearly about the task. The chief thing is to begin, after all—after which the chief thing is to finish.”

“I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.” - Paul”

“I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.”

“We are getting mixed up with the French tradition. In talking about the necessity to 'finish' a thing, we then said American painters 'finish' a thing that looks 'unfinished', and the French, they 'finish' it. I have seen Henri Matisse's that were more 'unfinished' and yet more 'finished' than any American painters. Matisse was obviously in a terrific emotion at the time and he was more 'unfinished' than 'finished.”

“I finished the thing; but I think I sprained my soul.”