I Have Been Vain Since Birth.

You're Always Fighting The Contradiction Between The Supposed Intimacy Of A Two-person Conversation And The Blunt Reality That You're Trying To Sell The Play To People Who Are Sitting Maybe Too Far Away From You.

I Wrote My First Play At The Age Of 10, 55 Years Ago, And I've Always Found It A Fantastic Relief To Imagine I Know What Things Would Be Like From The Point Of View Of Other Individuals And To Send Out Signals From Where I Actually Am Not. Playwrights Never Need To Write From The Place Where They Are.

We Are Not What We Seem. We Are More Than What We Seem. The Actor Knows That. And Because The Actor Knows That Hidden Inside Himself There's A Wizard And A King, He Also Knows That When He's Playing Himself In His Daily Life, He's Playing A Part, He's Performing, Just As He's Performing When He Plays A Part On Stage.

Patriotism Is Considered To Be An Emotion A Person Ought To Feel. But Why? Why Is It Nobler To Love Your Own Country Than To Love Someone Else's?

I Probably Have A Higher Opinion Of My Writing Than The Average Person, At Least When I'm In A Good Mood, But I Don't Really Think Of My Plays As Only Being Relevant To A Particular Month Or Year.