I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.

If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?