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

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.

Heroes can save the world, but villains can change it.

Passion + Persistence + Patience = Success.

Got any excuses tonight Roy?

Democracy works when people claim it as their own

As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

Life is like a motion picture, everything is like a movie. In one of my rhymes I say, "My life is like a movie/Directed by King Louie".

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

"The way of Cain" says there are many paths that lead to God rather than one path.

I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.