I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.

Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.

I've seen an awful lot of plays that I'd read before they were put into production and been shocked by what's happened to them. In the attempt to make them straightforward and commercially successful, a lot of things go out the window.

Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.

What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.

A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.