Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

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

We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.