A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar – you pretend it’s not there.
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Eternity’s a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it all going to end?
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
I don’t think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.
If an idea’s worth having once, it’s worth having twice.
If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.
What did you have in mind? A short, blunt human pyramid?
The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices – after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people’s.
Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
What a fine persecution – to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
I’m going to be dead before I read the books I’m going to read.
Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.