Proof David Auburn Quotes

#1. But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was matched by my delight in his fine and tender play. ( ... ) Proof surprises us with its aliveness and intelligent modesty, and we have not met these characters before.

John Heilpern

#2. We must strive to become good ancestors.

Ralph Nader

#3. Once she was born, I was never not afraid.

Joan Didion

#4. I was painfully shy as a child.

Lesley Nicol

#5. God's big enough that small doesn't matter.

N.D. Wilson

#6. One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left behind by their father. The other was about someone who knew that her parent had had problems of mental illness [and that] she might be going through the same thing.

David Auburn

#7. He was tired of shouldering the weight of other people's bad decisions along with his own.

Michael Chabon

#8. I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

Fanny Howe

#9. Love is acting stupid together.

Paul Valery

#10. We don't know history. We only know what has been written about it.

Marty Rubin

#11. I'd been trained in the art of psychotherapy, the excavation of the past as a means of untangling the present and rendering it livable. It's detective work, of sorts, crouching stealthily in the blind alleys of the unconscious. (179)

Jonathan Kellerman

#12. Don't let my flaws shatter your illusion, but see the depth of my humanity.

M.A. Levi