Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.

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

I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours.

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.