The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty with the set, which required too much effort to move around. Having gotten the benefit of seeing it done once, I wanted to work on the script, to make it sharper and more pointed.

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.

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

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

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!