Sassan Alavi Quotes & Sayings

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds. — Friedrich Schiller

People often tell me, "You write such great women." I don't think about it, I just write characters as rigorously and as truthfully as I can and hope, no matter their gender, that their humanity comes through. — Donald Margulies

When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge. — Kate Morton

For the past month and a half, it's been inanely hot every single day. Someone's bound to feel a little homicidal now and then. — Brenna Yovanoff

To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators. — Lewis H. Lapham