Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.

There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is.

Give us this day our daily mask.