I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?

The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.