Quotes by Lin-Manuel Miranda

[BURR]I am the one thing in life I can control.

[HAMILTON]I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory

[WASHINGTON]It’s alright, you want to fight, you’ve got a hungerI was just like you when I was youngerHead full of fantasies of dyin’ like a martyr?[HAMILTON]Yes[WASHINGTON]Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder

I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind.

The past places no absolute limit on the future.

Time alone is the gift of self-entertainment - and that is the font of creativity

You are perfectly cast in your life. I cant imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.

Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.

Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the I’m a Fraud phase. You go through the I’ll Never Finish phase. And every once in a while you think, What if I actually have created what I set out to create, and it’s received as such?

My wifes the reason anything gets done, she nudges me towards promise by degrees. She is a perfect symphony of one our son is her most beautiful reprise. We chase the melodies that seem to find us until theyre finished songs and start to play. When senseless acts of tragedy remind us that nothing here is promised--not one day. This show is proof that history remembers. We live in times when hate and fear seem stronger. We rise and fall and light from dying embers--remembrances that hope and love last longer. And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside. I sing Vanessas symphony. Eliza tells her story. Now, fill the world with music, love, and pride.

Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love, cannot be killed or swept aside.

[ELIZA]You and your words flooded my senses, your sentences left me defenseless. You built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals.

Why do you write like youre running out of time?

West Wing was huge. Like Hamilton, it pulls back the curtain on how decision-making happens at the highest level, or at least how you hope it would be. The amount of information Aaron Sorkin packs into a scene gave me this courage to trust the audience to keep up.

One of my first favorite books was The 12 Days of Christmas, and I would just go up to people and say, I can sing The 12 Days of Christmas, and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and Id go all the way, each time. Ive always hooked into lyrics.

I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was youre going to have to work twice as hard.

Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... Thats a superpower Ive been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions.

In the best works of fiction, theres no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guys got his reasons.

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.

I dont differentiate between black and Latino actors. Were in the same struggle to be represented in a way thats even close to honest. And I can tell you that the amount of Latino characters I can point at and say, Thats what my life experience looks like - I cant think of any off the top of my head besides Jimmy Smits in Mi Familia.