When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.

It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.

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

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.

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.

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.