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

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.

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.

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.

...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

In a Universe with infinite possibilities we don't have to have our hearts set on just one.

The three Secrets of Fatima were closely held by the Vatican for decades, until the text of the third and last secret was finally released in 2000.

Men like fun much more than they like clever

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought.

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents.

All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.