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.

Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

War is capitalism with the gloves off.

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.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!