The correct unit of study is not the play; it is the scene.

The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.

You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can’t do one of those three things, you ain’t going to get any money.

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.