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

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.

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 word.

We will not always be here, so let's make the best use of what we have, when we still have it.

This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Adam was a super being when God created him...

I did plays in high school and I really loved it, but I think singing was always what I loved most of all.

I want to make it clear to people that the idea of putting subliminable messages into ads is ridiculous.

If the cake fits, eat it!

You get a decent do at the Brazen Head

The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go where the job takes me.

I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.

Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.