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.

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

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

The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs.

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

You see I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry - angry and helpless. And I can never forget it. I knew more about - love... betrayal... and death, when I was ten years old than you will probably ever know in your life.

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