What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?.

Love is the only doorway from the prison of ourselves..

I was an accomplice in my own frustration..

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art..

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right..

You have your words, and I have mine..

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it..

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything..

The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there..

The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment..

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London..

All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two ….

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting..

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you..

I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint..

Look... to go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into th….

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process..

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, an….

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave..

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?.

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….