Playwright Quotes

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write.

I get excited by landscape.

Now listen lads, I'm not happy with our tackling. We're hurting them but they keep getting up.

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

When I hear the word culture - I release the safety-catch of my Browning.

The problem is that it is difficult to translate.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.

I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity,' so to speak.

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.