The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true …

- Patrick Marber

I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; som…

- Patrick Marber

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

- Patrick Marber

Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...…

- Patrick Marber

Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.

- Patrick Marber

Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.

- Patrick Marber

We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge…

- Patrick Marber

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

- Patrick Marber

Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now.

- Patrick Marber