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

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

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.

George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.

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.

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.