I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.

I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its so supple and sly.

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.

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.