“He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece...” — Arthur Miller Quote

“He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.”

“A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!”

“I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.”

“Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?”

“The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.”

“Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.”

“The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.”

“Obviously you don't want to be anonymous, but you don't want everyone to know your life.”

“I didn't fully appreciate the impact of what I helped create until 2016 happened. Very soon after that, I started working for The Guardian, originally as an anonymous source.”

“I find anonymous music frees me best. Chinese pop can be perfect. I can't decipher anything on the CD label; there is nothing I can hang on to.”

“Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You're a superstar one day and wake up the next day and you're anonymous. To be successful in any way is beating the odds right now, I think.”

“In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the history books.”