My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

All you need is a vision and a little passion to meet success.

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.

Focusing on food and exercise changed my life.

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated

As CEO, my main job is editor-in-chief.

Before the storm comes the calm. Hope you can take the heat like LeBron

Creativity isn't about wild talent as much as it's about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't. It's a pure numbers game.