A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

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

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

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

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

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

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