You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!

I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.