I find that in the course of the day when I'm writing, after three or four hours of intense work, I have a splitting headache, and I have to stop. Because the involvement, which is both creative and self-critical, is so intense that I've got to stop doing it.

Everybody wants to go see the big hit [at the theatre]. Not because it's any good. Because it's the big hit and everybody wants to be able to talk about the big hit.

When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.

The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.