We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.

When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.

I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

I don't like sympathetic characters.

I'm not interested in entertainment.

I'm not interested in observed reality.

I've often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.

One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.

In those days secrets were well kept.

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.

A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.

I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

My dog was with me all the time. I talked to my dog. She was my best buddy. I shared all my secrets with her, but I don't think I every really tried jokes out with the dog.

I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.

We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.

I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.

I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?

I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.