A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie is my creation, my poem. In the mirror of invention, love discovered itself.

The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.

Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

There is truth and falsehood in a comma.