My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

A play that works well and is done quite a lot - I've never done the math - but it's probably more remunerative than a movie.

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.