The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.

When the guns roar, the arts die.

The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.