A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

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.

We must be born with an intuition of mortality.

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