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.
Words, words. They’re all we have to go on.
Each move is dictated by the previous one – that is the meaning of order.
Give us this day our daily mask.
Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.
People think there’s a choice between smoking and immortality, but we’ve all got to die of something.
Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.
In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.