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

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

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

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?

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.