You can't win every week.

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that, because plays are about the whole event that they are. . . . I was certainly wanting to write a play about damage - damage to nature and damage to people, both of which there's plenty of about. To that extent, I was writing a play about England now.

England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.

[Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade.

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.