I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don’t go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one’s memory. And yet, I can’t remember it.

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.

Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.