I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

I like it when stories are left open.

I am the character you are not supposed to like.