37 Quotes by Caryl Churchill

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.

There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that, because plays are about the whole event that they are. . . . I was certainly wanting to write a play about damage - damage to nature and damage to people, both of which there's plenty of about. To that extent, I was writing a play about England now.

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.

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

[Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade.

You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.

People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?

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

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.