Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

can only write about what bites you.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.