Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it allows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the “luxuriousness” of personality, losing ourselves in the depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye.

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it allows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the “luxuriousness” of personality, losing ourselves in the depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye.

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead

Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.