I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

(Falls down in a drunken stupor): Let's sit down.

I began my talk by saying that I had not written my plays for purposes of discussion. At once, I felt a ripple of panic run through the hall. I suddenly realis…

Wake me up for breakfast, if I'm not dead.

God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.

At once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature & which Shakespeare posessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capa…

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.