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

My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.

Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.

Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you.

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.