Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.

Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.

Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as "real life," do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak.

What I value most in my friends is loyalty.

Everyone needs money. That's why they call it money

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.