Hugh Leonard

"I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of."

"My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play."

"My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father."

"I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of."

"My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past."