When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

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 like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours.

I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is.

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