Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

What’s the likelihood? That the one girl who makes my heart race is the one girl who wants me in return? That the accident of my attraction coincides with the accident of hers?

For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he might have said, or might have done—a judgment that is necessarily hampered, not only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem.

A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.