I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.

We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.

I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.