Nanci Sampogna

“[No Villain] was about an industrial conflict and a father and his two sons, the most autobiographical dramatic work I would ever write.

The truth of the matter is that I never had an argument with my father. That was part of the problem. See, we could never come to a fruitful conflict. So it took my work [No Villain] to do that.

From the beginning the idea of writing a play was a kind of license to say the unspeakable.”
― Arthur Miller

“What marriage doesn't involve uncountable accretions, a language of gestures, a sense of recognition sharp as a toothache? Unhappy, sure. What couple isn't unhappy, at least part of the time? But how can the divorce rate be, as they say, skyrocketing? How miserable would you have to get to be able to bear the actual separation, to go off and live your life so utterly unrecognized?”
― Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall

“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
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― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

“...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...”
― Homer, The Odyssey