If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

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.

Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.

No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

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'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.