Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.
It’s the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
I write scenes – often quite long scenes – mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
Be happy – if you’re not even happy, what’s so good about surviving?
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.