It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.
Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You’d think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it’s not.
Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You’d have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I’m not dead.
Pirates could happen to anyone.
I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.
When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
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.