A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.

To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

I take every possible side.