I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have to distort toward a symbolic construction of what happened, and as that distortion takes place, you begin to leave out and overemphasize and consequently deliver up life as a unity rather than as a chaos, and any such attempt, the more intense it is, the more poetic it becomes.

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.

The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it.

. . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.