Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.

I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.

Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.

If you prepare, and you've got wonderful, bright people who get it, who accept and appreciate your preparation, then you don't have to explain yourself 9,000 times.

I don't direct the plays of others.

The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.

I felt no need to write a German-bashing play.

You simply can't make someone love you if they don't. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone who does not love you, this is the sort of love you must want.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

When you have done all that you can do, A true Mother will always stick by you. You may think sometimes that she is rude. She has to be because this world can be crude.

No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself.

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren I'd have had them first.

I wasn't supported, I wasn't given any self-esteem.

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

That's the goal, to survive your gift.

The safe time to invest is when there is blood in the streets.

I don't combine proteins and carbohydrates.

I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.