It is to a dramatist, which is to say, to an unfrocked psychoanalyst, stunning that that which has sustained the Left in my generation, its avatar, its prime issue, has been abortion. For, whether or not it is regarded as a woman's right, an unfortunate necessity, or murder, which is to say, irrespective of differing and legitimate political views, to enshrine it as the most important test of the Liberal, is, mythologically, an assertion to the ultimate right of a postreligious Paganism.

It is the objective of the protagonist that keeps us in our seats.

I don't really have a social life.

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.