Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather..

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft..

Children always turn to the light..

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry..

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel dea….

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time..

I believe love opens people up..

My father always said 'There's no free lunch.' My father was right. There's no free lunch and there's no free market. The market is rigged, the marke….

What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want p….

The majority don't like me before the curtain goes up, and I always have to win them..

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome..

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail..

The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it….

Smiles are the language of love..

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature..

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides - when the moon is at the full, and when….

You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV..

No one but a fool is always right..

The future of American film lies on television..

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it..

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides..