[Christopher:] You cannot conceive of the quantity of explosives the armies throw at each other for each man killed! The shells make a continuous noise, sometimes like an enormous machine breaking apa...
When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility for a play about two people, and sudd...
What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
ROS: Why don't you go and have a look?GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?
Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.
You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.
We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurre...
Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.
STANKEVICH The world outside of me has no meaning independent of my thinking it. (pauses to look) I look out of the window. A garden. Trees. Grass. A young woman in a chair reading a book. I think: ch...
Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive?Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?
Independence isn't all it's cracked up to be, you know. What country could be more independent than Russia? And in Russia now there isn't a squeak or a pinpoint of light. I have nowhere to publish. Th...
I have three copies of the first edition, which sold in double figures, speaking loosely; there was a moment when Blond's 'Lord Malquist and Mr Moon' sold 67 copies, or some such number, in Venezuela...
Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie is my creation, my poem. In the mirror of invention, love disc...
After Magritte often serves as a companion piece to The Real Inspector Hound, which I think is appropriate in at least one way: neither play is about anything grander than itself. A
Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to anyone- it doesn't catch them unawares and start the whisper...
A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or...
Я хотела кое-что спросить у вас, но вы можете рассердиться. Тем не менее я вам отвечу. Нет. Но вы же не знаете, что я собиралась спросить? Не знаю. Но теперь вы можете подогнать свой вопрос к моему от...
Отправляйся к ней. Она тебе явно дороже нас, раз она тебя так хорошо понимает. То есть в целом вы не согласны с её анализом? В целом она может пойти и повеситься.