“There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.”

The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.

Gossip is conversation about people.

Corporations must pay tax.

Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.

He who is last had best laugh.

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

What I like least about myself is my belligerence.

I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

I am only at home in the present.

I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the perfect crime.

The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion

Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.

What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?

Der, die, das, dem, den, des. German’s six ways of saying ‘the’, like six sexual positions you never knew existed. Hey, I just sprung a boner.

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it.

The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.