I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.

The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.