Love is the only doorway from the prison of ourselves.

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.

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 was an accomplice in my own frustration.

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

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

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 about, you know.

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

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

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

I am so brave with love and yet, so weak.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)

Look," I whisper to Cat, "Shooting star! That's good luck." She rolls her eyes. "It's a plane, you idiot," she says, and when I look again I can see that she's right. Typical.

I am an experimenter, or rather I used to be one. Then I stopped working, and since then people think I am a theoretician.

If a thing can't go on forever, it will eventually stop.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer.

I think the fascinating - several different pieces of the [Donald] Trump psyche revealed by what happened today and one of them is this decision not to hold more fundraisers.

Even when I was down, I treated myself as a star and eventually the world would catch up.