I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

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

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

You have your words, and I have mine.

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

He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters? Stuck on to other objects we select? Look at him! ... My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband - a caring citizen - a worshipper of abstract and unifying God. My achievement, however, is more likely to make a ghost!

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.