Tracy Letts Quotes

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

I live on the ground floor, so I have these lacy curtains during the day and then as soon as it gets dark, I'm like, 'Blackout blinds! Shutters!' I like being more private.

As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression...It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become victims of the darkness.

I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.

It feels good to be awake, knowing others are asleep. Makes you feel like the night is not for everyone, just a chosen few.

During the night we must wait for the light.

On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall.

A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.

Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

I come alive in the night time

I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.

How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light-a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?

I’ve always felt that night doesn’t fall. Night rises.

For this freedom I have given all I had For this darkness I gave my light For this wisdom I have lost my innocence Take my petals And cover me with the night

He changed sunset into sunrise.

If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.

The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.

A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences.

Darkness is dawn not yet born.

...and the night was comfortably warm as the soft filtered light continued to push the darkness into the shadows as they held each other and kissed and pushed each others darkness into the corner, believing in each others light, each others dream.

I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness

But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness. I sing a love song as well as I can, lost for a while in the home of the rain.

For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling.