Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.
Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.
I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.
We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.