can only write about what bites you.

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

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.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.

In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.