Caryl Churchill Quotes

I'll take her no mistake no mister no missed her no mist no miss no me no.

I do enjoy the form of things. I enjoy finding the form that seems best to fit what I'm thinking about. I don't set out to find a bizarre way of writing.

Maud: Young women are never happy.
Betty: Mother, what a thing to say.
Maud: Then when they're older they look back and see that comparatively speaking they were ecstatic.

NELL. Because that's what an employer is going to have doubts about with a lady as I needn't tell you, whether she's got the guts to push through to a closing situation. They think we're too nice. They think we listen to the buyer's doubts. They think we consider his needs and his feelings.

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.

Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her use of the space and the detail of her work with the actors, and I'm looking forward to seeing what she does with Light Shining.

I was fed up with the situation I found myself in in the 1960s. I didn't like being a barrister's wife and going out to dinner with other professional people and dealing with middle class life. It seemed claustrophobic.

Twigs and beetles and dead body. Water and blood. You'll never get back.

You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.

Harry: I supposed getting married wouldn't be any worse than killing myself.

How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?

We've got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We've got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. We've got thirty per cent the same as a lettuce. Does that cheer you up at all? I love about the lettuce. It makes me feel I belong.

You can't win every week.

What I like about a dog it stops people getting after you, they're not going to come round in the night. But they make the place stink because I might want to stay out a few days and when I get back I might want to stay in a few days and a dog can become a tyrant to you.

I'd go without food if I could have a flower.

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

Parties are a cruel kind of fun.

Maybe he should have kept quiet about if he knew they couldn't stand it.
Is that what you do?