Quotes from Maria Irene Fornes

We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.

When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it ensures your integrity.

That is, I feel, the concern of the educator - to teach how to be sensitive to the differences in ourselves as well as outside ourselves, not to supervise the memorization of facts.

You see, that which is exposed to the exterior is...smooth and dry clean. That which is not... underneath, is slimy and filled with fungus and crawling with worms. It is another life that is parallel to the one we manifest. It's there. The way worms are underneath the stone. If you don't recognize it...it eats you.-That is my opinion.-Well, who is ready for lunch?

You see, that which is exposed to the exterior... is smooth and dry and clean. That which is not... underneath, is slimy and filled with fungus and crawling with worms. It is another life that is parallel to the one we manifest. It's there. The way worms are underneath the stone. If you don't recognize it... (whispering) it eats you.-That is my opinion.-Well, who is ready for lunch?

There are two of you- one who wants to write and one who doesn't. The one who wants to write better keep tricking the one who doesn't.

You keep your love wrapped in bird's nerves...