The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

I'll tell you what I really think about politicians. The other night I watched some politicians on television talking about Vietnam. I wanted very much to burst through the screen with a flame thrower and burn their eyes out and their balls off and then inquire from them how they would assess the action from a political point of view.