40 Quotes by Christopher Durang

When my parents separated, I was very grateful.

Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.

I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

I need a life. I need a friend. I need a change. But nothing ever changes.

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.

It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine. You weren't meant to eat meat on Friday in deference to Christ, who died on Friday. If you did, you went to hell, . . That way, Hitler would be in hell alongside someone who ate meat on Friday. I thought there was no justice there.