All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if the listener likes us. Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.

I don't want realism. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!