A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.

It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.