The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.

I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a typewriter, but the necessary time to think before using them.

The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.