“Do you think we make sad things into songs in order to hold on to the sadness or to banish it – I think it is to banish the sadness. So then if you write a happy song, is it not sadder than a sad song because by making it you have banished your own happiness into a song?”

“Do you think we make sad things into songs in order to hold on to the sadness or to banish it – I think it is to banish the sadness. So then if you write a happy song, is it not sadder than a sad song because by making it you have banished your own happiness into a song?”

— Sarah Ruhl