“The trouble is if you dont spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”

“If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.”

“The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.”

“It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this eve...”

“Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.”

“We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation ...”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”