Occupation: Playwright Birth: May 15, 1926 Death: June 6, 2016
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London..
The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults..
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….
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….
I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did..
You have your words, and I have mine..
Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes ….
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He can hardly read. He knows no….
You can't always let people do their own thing..
Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish..
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 ….
And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy..
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you..
A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave..
I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a….
I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life..
The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes- all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills- like a God. It ….
What was evident was that Mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. And finished as most music is never finished. Displ….
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 ….
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right..
Love is the only doorway from the prison of ourselves..