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“I think she’ll like me,” I said, concerned that my own mother wouldn’t like me. My fear exposed the unspoken shame of all families: if you didn’t know the people you were related to, would you befriend them? In the days when families hunted and gathered, this wouldn’t be a question worth pondering, but once butchering a mammoth stopped being a household chore, we began to suspect families are chain gangs held together by manacles of DNA.”
― Bob Smith, Remembrance of Things I Forgot: A Novel

“Her smile was like a Samuel Beckett play - easy to read but difficult to interpret.”
― Bob Smith, Openly Bob: Candid and Wry Comic Essays on Gay Life in a Straight Society

“What we, the audience, bring when we come to the theater - what we might be feeling that day. What might have happened to us. That is a big part of what a play is.”
― Richard Nelson, Sweet and Sad

“The one undeniable benefit of having spent some time in the closet is that it nurtures a talent that you can fall back on any time: lying convincingly. Sometimes I worried that queer kids in the twenty-first century coming out at twelve, or even younger, would never develop that valuable skill.”
― Bob Smith, Remembrance of Things I Forgot