The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically nothing in a way - , there's no particular performance that is definitive in the way a novel is a solid object you hold in your hands and here it is. You can't say that about a play. If the novel gives us a sense of throbbing consciousness, theater is pure soul, beautiful and elusive.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.

The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.