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

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

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

All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.

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!

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

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