The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say -- or their beliefs -- or sex.

Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.

Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.

Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it.

I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.