I think it is not fanciful or silly to say that the characters do start to possess their own life.

Harold Pinter, in The Progressive, 2001. Happy Halloween.

I’m looking at you and I’m thinking: if it could be like this. If it could always be like this.

Playwright, in ”The Model and the Playwright,” Act 7 of The Blue Room by David Hare. (Based on Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde.)

Oleanna (David Mamet, 1992)

• John:

  . . . Yes. All right. You find me pedantic. Yes. I am. By nature, by birth, by profession, I don't know. . . I'm always looking for a paradigm for . . .

• Carol:

  I don't know what a paradigm is.

• John:

  It's a model.

• Carol:

  Then why can't you use that word?

Thief of Thieves, new issue out today. In the world of comics, this is just great stuff.

Pinter, Betrayal (1978)

• Emma:

  It was from Jerry.

• Robert:

  Yes, I recognized the handwriting.