Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.

It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

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!