I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.