In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

All rhetorical questions are accusations.

The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.