It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.
The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins.
nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. nobody can save you but yourself
It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like soldiers on the eve of a battle, looking forward to the strenuous sortie of the morrow.
Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?
It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .
My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.
The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.
I search but never find, hurt but never cry I work and forever try but I'm cursed, so never mind.
Our work is never over.
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
Things have never been easy for us, from the beginning.
Broadway is so defeating for the most part that it doesn't encourage people to be as tenacious as they should be.
I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.
If What you re doing now was enough to get what you want, you'd already have it.
The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.
Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.
agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.
