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

The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.

Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.

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.

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

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

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.