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.

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.

I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.

If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!

It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.

One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.

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