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.

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

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

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.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?