Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

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

In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.

You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.