There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

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

Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction! Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!

Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.