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.

My scripts are possibly too talkative.

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.

Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?

I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.

To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.