I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

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

Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.

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

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

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

You can't always let people do their own thing.