I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.

People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.

Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.