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.

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

A refined sort of butcher, a woman is.

I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.

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

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

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.