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.

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.

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.

You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.