Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go wrong you have to pass the blame along the line, like pass-the-parcel, till the music stops.

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.

For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

...reality, the name we give to the common experience.

Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go wrong you have to pass the blame along the line, like pass-the-parcel, till the music stops.