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.

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.

A play that works well and is done quite a lot - I've never done the math - but it's probably more remunerative than a movie.

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.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.

Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.