My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.

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

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.

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.

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