School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

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.

In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so rigid or egotistical to think that every comma is sacrosanct. But at the same time there is the danger of losing control and finding that somebody else has opened a play and not you.

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

I do think, or rather I sense that there is a relationship - at least in my own work - between a dramatic structure, the form and sound and shape of a play, and the equivalent structure in music. Both deal with sound, of course, and also with idea, theme.

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.