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When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.
It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.
Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.
Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.
Everyone praises the views you get from mountain tops, but no one talks about the views that they block.
I remember that my mother used to take me to see ballets, especially if there were black people in them.
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
If I can't find real situations that interest me in real life, then I'll go and write them in play form.
For some reason, 1968 is a touchstone year for me. I think it was the first year I felt fully conscious.
I have a tremendous respect for writers who scribble away their torments, and their passions into plays.
Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.
It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.
To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.
The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead.
One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.
Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open
Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament.
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.
I literally grew up in drama. I used to watch drama - the catharsis of the play - then see drama at home.
The future is in great hands with feminists such as Carla Buzasi, Caroline Criado-Perez, Lucy-Anne Holmes
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.
People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
I find the Internet to be the most wonderful thing there is. It connects people. Everyone can have input.
It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.
The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.
Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.
The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.
I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.
A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.