Playwright Quotes

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.

In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs.

I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

Know how to live the time that is given you.

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

Women never have young minds. They were born three thousand years old.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.