Speaking about myself, I've been pleasantly surprised that my older plays are still being performed. Most important is that they still have something to say to today's audience, in particular the young people who enjoy my plays. That's the best I could hope for, that the plays aren't single-use products of one era.

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.

Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

President Murabak has been a U.S. ally for decades. He was a guarantor of some degree of peace in the Middle East and has kept a good relationship with the Western world.