I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.

My films are about embarrassment.

But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.