In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?