The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Children always turn to the light.

My father always said 'There's no free lunch.' My father was right. There's no free lunch and there's no free market. The market is rigged, the market is always rigged, and the rigging is in favour of the people who run the market. That's what the market is. It's a bent casino. The house always wins.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.