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

You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.

Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."

the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.