August Wilson Quotes

It's lovely. I hate it.

I think that anyone who lives in New York, who's lived here, who's spent any time here, knows that it's basically a love-hate relationship, you might say. Even though I still think it's the greatest city in the world and I wouldn't live anywhere else, there're still things about it one doesn't like. The love far outweighs the negative.

New York is in my soul.

I love the attention and I hate the attention, you know? It's not always good for your soul.

London's where I grew up and had most of my experiences.

Pittsburgh is home. I was born there, and it will always have priority in that respect.

I think people have this love-hate relationship with tennis. I also feel like that.

I find Australia compelling and vexatious at the best of times; I've never been able to get it out of my system since going there as a young lecturer, and yet however much I love revisiting it, I always feel I have to leave again.

I miss producing. I hate it when I do it, but I love it.

I've never lived anywhere else in my life, I have a massive love-hate relationship with this city. I grew up in the western suburbs in the '80s and for everything we had to go to south Bombay - so you lived the whole city, in a sense.

She never liked me much, but she sure loved me

I don't like you, but I love you.

They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.

I love Manchester. I always have, ever since I was a kid, and I go back as much as I can. Manchester's my spiritual home. I've been in London for 22 years now but Manchester's the only other place, I think, in the country that I could live.

The first thing I look forward to when I am in Delhi is to spend some time with my family. It's always lovely coming back here and playing in front of my own people. It's just a special place.

I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

I have a love/ hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship.

When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too.

I love Perth. It is my home, and no matter where I am in the world, Perth is where my heart is.

With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is.

I lived in New York for seven years, although I was always in denial about it. Even though I had an apartment there, I always pretended I was just visiting. I do love New York. But I'm a Londoner at heart.

When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!