Jill

“either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it...”
― Leo Tolstoy

“For we rationalize, objectify, and personalize the process of the game exactly as we do that of a play, a drama. For, finally, it is a drama, with meaning for our lives. Why else would we watch it?”
― David Mamet, Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama

“The audience wants to be piqued, to be misled, to be disappointed at times, so that it can, finally, be fulfilled. The audience therefore needs the second act to end with a question.”
― David Mamet, Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama

“However much our quotidian cares consume us, our dreamtime is too valuable, and will be devoted to problems not susceptible to rational consideration.”
― David Mamet, Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama