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

The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes- all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills- like a God. It is the Ordinary made beautiful; it is also the Average made leathal. The Normal is the indispensable, murderous God of Health.

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.

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

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

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.