The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.

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

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.