A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

When the guns roar, the arts die.

People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.

The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.