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

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

I believe love opens people up..

Smiles are the language of love..

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

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail..

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….

For a politician, the mans to power is paramount, and the ideology, in a way, can look after itself; I'm afraid a writer can't think like that. A wri….

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

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

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….

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity..

I don't think of my plays as steamy places where people display huge amounts of emotions. The feeling is underneath, which in my experience is where ….

I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having..

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

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

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

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….

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