Harold Kushner quote: "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived."

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
HAROLD KUSHNER

Death takes the good, too good to stay, And leaves the bad, too bad to take away
HAROLD KUSHNER

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
HAROLD KUSHNER

A prophet is not a man who tells the future; he is a man who tells the truth.
HAROLD KUSHNER

The major Jewish dietary laws rest on a single premise: Eating meat is a moral compromise. There is ...
HAROLD KUSHNER

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something in...
HAROLD KUSHNER

The ability to forgive and the ability to love are the weapons God has given us to live fully, brave...
HAROLD KUSHNER

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness
HAROLD KUSHNER

You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to ...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER

Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted--a paved road or a washing machine? If...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER

I no longer ask the young man's question: How far will I go? My questions are now those of the matur...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power. Those rewards create almost as many pro...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have bee...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER

If you have been brave enough to love, and somtimes you won and sometimes you lost; if you have care...
HAROLD S. KUSHNER

I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER

If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My ...
HAROLD S. KUSHNER

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life ...
~RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER

I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come...
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into ...
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER

The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't ...
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER

Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER

The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time w...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?

Mormon Mother: Well it has...
TONY KUSHNER

I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk cal...
RACHEL KUSHNER

You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Gre...
TONY KUSHNER

The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the...
JARED KUSHNER

I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any carto...
TONY KUSHNER

But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was M...
TONY KUSHNER

The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a...
TONY KUSHNER

Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same con...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of excl...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the f...
TONY KUSHNER

I have crashed on a motorcycle that was going at 140mph, so I know what it feels like.
RACHEL KUSHNER

I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York...
TONY KUSHNER

When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not b...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Y...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.
JARED KUSHNER

But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresi...
TONY KUSHNER

My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people ...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.
TONY KUSHNER

I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the ...
RACHEL KUSHNER

'The Observer's Very Short List' is another example of how the Observer Media Group offe...
JARED KUSHNER

The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters decidin...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are i...
RACHEL KUSHNER

My father's favorite movie was 'The Dirty Dozen.'
JARED KUSHNER

I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable a...
TONY KUSHNER

I suppose I am interested in women plus anonymity plus disappearance.
RACHEL KUSHNER

I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mock...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms ...
TONY KUSHNER

In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the ver...
RACHEL KUSHNER

It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning ...
RACHEL KUSHNER

One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reade...
RACHEL KUSHNER

The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decide...
TONY KUSHNER

I'm going to start work on developing a series for HBO, because I'm naturally given to episo...
TONY KUSHNER

You can't cover up a lot of other workplace sins by just having that proverbial foosball table. But ...
GARY KUSHNER

I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to exp...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tende...
RACHEL KUSHNER

At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place f...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzva...
TONY KUSHNER

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mor...
TONY KUSHNER

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.
TONY KUSHNER

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting...
TONY KUSHNER

People are hysterical about the death of newspapers, and I would say, 'They're not dying; th...
JARED KUSHNER

I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationshi...
TONY KUSHNER

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on peo...
TONY KUSHNER

I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited....
RACHEL KUSHNER

Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're us...
TONY KUSHNER

I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but...
RACHEL KUSHNER

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens...
TONY KUSHNER

The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we'v...
TONY KUSHNER

[Some of his characters were underdeveloped, to the extent that their speeches could be (and sometim...
TONY KUSHNER

Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what ...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't ...
RACHEL KUSHNER

If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, ...
TONY KUSHNER

Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Most consumer advocates recommend, for a cable company, you want to call once every six months and n...
AVIYA KUSHNER

Sometimes they'll say, 'No, this is only for new customers,' but sometimes there's some bargaining r...
AVIYA KUSHNER

I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.
RACHEL KUSHNER

I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of...
TONY KUSHNER

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln'...
TONY KUSHNER

You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind...
TONY KUSHNER

It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of hom...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
RACHEL KUSHNER

I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as ha...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.
RACHEL KUSHNER

I know a little bit about motorcycles and motorcycle riding.
RACHEL KUSHNER

That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and co...
TONY KUSHNER

Belize: Hell or heaven?

[Roy indicates "Heaven" through a glance]

Belize: Lik...
TONY KUSHNER

I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to ...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. Th...
RACHEL KUSHNER

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his...
TONY KUSHNER

I always thought, 'Will I go into the business, or will I not go into the business?' But whe...
JARED KUSHNER

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on he...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one r...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Proust is a huge author for me.
RACHEL KUSHNER

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights...
TONY KUSHNER

I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or ...
TONY KUSHNER

I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
RACHEL KUSHNER

I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appe...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America&...
TONY KUSHNER

Peter Kaplan was a giant.
JARED KUSHNER

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a p...
TONY KUSHNER

Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to ...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magaz...
RACHEL KUSHNER

A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.
TONY KUSHNER

One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topi...
RACHEL KUSHNER

From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and viole...
RACHEL KUSHNER

The first day he came in and sang on 'Set Me Free,' we were like, 'OK, this is the guy.' That's why ...
DAVE KUSHNER

It was pretty brutal. The process sucked.
DAVE KUSHNER

I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing e...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really impor...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.
RACHEL KUSHNER

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.
TONY KUSHNER

Night flight to San Francisco; chase the moon across America. God, it’s been years since I was on ...
TONY KUSHNER

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The...
TONY KUSHNER

Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love a...
RACHEL KUSHNER

When you think of the coordination this took, it's historic. When you think of the measures that wil...
HARVEY KUSHNER

No one will leave Safer America or saferamerica.com without a significant amount of training into wh...
HARVEY KUSHNER

When you close six embassies in a region in the world, you send a message to the world that not only...
HARVEY KUSHNER

New York is the capital of the world. If you want to hit a symbol, you hit New York. It's also the c...
HARVEY KUSHNER

If I can do things as an employer to make the work interesting, to make it a 'we work hard/we play h...
GARY KUSHNER

It's not even necessarily so much that happy employees are good for business. It is, from [Rich Ande...
GARY KUSHNER

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming...
TONY KUSHNER

I had decided that it is the fate of my generation never to have known the noble law of the sea, and...
RACHEL KUSHNER

She was drunk, as everyone was, most of the time.
RACHEL KUSHNER

To reduce the chances of crime in your home, put a deadbolt in your door, put a peephole in your doo...
MALCOLM KUSHNER

Comic vision often leads to serious solutions.
MALCOLM KUSHNER

A sense of humor means looking at things from an offbeat angle.
MALCOLM KUSHNER

Who knew why they waited, I thought, understanding that I, too, had it in me to wait. To expect chan...
RACHEL KUSHNER

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the criti...
HAROLD PINTER

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
HAROLD RAMIS

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
HAROLD TAYLOR

If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
HAROLD WILSON

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
HAROLD WILSON

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep...
HAROLD WILSON

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
HAROLD WILSON

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
HAROLD WILSON

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
HAROLD WILSON

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
HAROLD WILSON

A week is a long time in politics.
HAROLD WILSON

Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
HAROLD WILSON

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
HAROLD WILSON

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
HAROLD WILSON

I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
HAROLD WILSON

One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.
HAROLD WARNER

Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
HAROLD WARNER

The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
HAROLD WARNER

We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
HAROLD TAYLOR

I don't think I have a black-hat image.
HAROLD SIMMONS

I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the ima...
HAROLD SIMMONS

I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm do...
HAROLD SIMMONS

Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given q...
HAROLD SIMMONS

The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
HAROLD RUSSELL

I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.
HAROLD RUSSELL

My life is a series of things that just happen.
HAROLD RUSSELL

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widel...
HAROLD ROSS

Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
HAROLD ROSS

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, es...
HAROLD ROSENBERG

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
HAROLD ROSENBERG

The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a h...
HAROLD ROSENBERG

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of w...
HAROLD ROSENBERG

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself fr...
HAROLD ROSENBERG

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of ...
HAROLD ROSENBERG

I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
HAROLD ROBBINS

Hemingway was a jerk.
HAROLD ROBBINS

My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're...
HAROLD RAMIS

I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time beca...
HAROLD RAMIS

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.
HAROLD RAMIS

The movie 'Vacation' had a whole different ending. They never even got to the amusement park...
HAROLD RAMIS

I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so ...
HAROLD RAMIS

Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that an...
HAROLD RAMIS

I'm at my best when I'm working with really talented people, and I'm there to gently sug...
HAROLD RAMIS

I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human ...
HAROLD RAMIS

First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with...
HAROLD RAMIS

I was raised Jewish and fully embrace the core beliefs of Judaism - the ones that I identify as core...
HAROLD RAMIS

I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at...
HAROLD RAMIS

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
HAROLD RAMIS

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.
HAROLD RAMIS

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'...
HAROLD RAMIS

Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You...
HAROLD RAMIS

Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're fu...
HAROLD RAMIS

The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it ...
HAROLD RAMIS

I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.
HAROLD RAMIS

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
HAROLD RAMIS

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
HAROLD PRINCE

One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.
HAROLD PRINCE

I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any se...
HAROLD PRINCE

I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm d...
HAROLD PRINCE

I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in reh...
HAROLD PRINCE

I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think ...
HAROLD PRINCE

It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that ...
HAROLD PRINCE

The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it ou...
HAROLD PRINCE

A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
HAROLD PRINCE

I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stoppin...
HAROLD PRINCE

When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just...
HAROLD PRINCE

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

Harold Kushner

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