Occupation: Playwright Birth: May 15, 1926 Death: June 6, 2016
Love is the only doorway from the prison of ourselves..
Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art..
I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them a….
What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?.
I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything..
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right..
I was an accomplice in my own frustration..
Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it..
The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment..
It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a ….
What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?.
It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found imme….
He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like ….
Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created..
All reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean-hoofed on to a whole new track of being I only suspect is there. I can't s….
You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this wa….
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting..
I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint..
The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there..
What was evident was that Mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. And finished as most music is never finished. Displ….
Librarians as a race tend to be tedious..