Writer's Diary
6/19/26
The most important thing is to love the future and to love in the future, and not to bitterly litigate the past.
On slow, fetid summer days, the present is less of an object, I feel myself gathering, changing. After Last Days of Downtown, which was one of the longest and most successful runs of my theater career, in some ways one of the happiest and easiest, I feel somewhat pleasantly becalmed. Not long ago, I felt disillusioned, worn, and weary, but with a little bit of solitude, I feel how easily I can recover, recuperate, and gain a new lease on life.
I find that intelligence and courage tend to arrive together in others. Independence of mind tends to produce independence of behavior, and happily so.
The future tense is the tense of hope.
One of the most profound Christian ideas is the reminder that even persecutors are human.
A phobic fear of life is often expressed as morality. Ethical language is often an attack on vitality—and is covertly, deeply immoral, in the sense that it prefers pain and nothingness over joyful experience.
I like this one, Matthew.