Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

What did you have in mind? A short, blunt human pyramid?

A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.