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….

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute..

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

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 ….

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..

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….

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 ….

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….

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..

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 ….

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did..

The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults..

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

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….

Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?.

You have your words, and I have mine..

You can't always let people do their own thing..

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life..

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish..