You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

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.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

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.

In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.

There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.