A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm in control. But the great excitement is to see what happens if you let the whole thing go. And the dog or the character really runs about, bites everyone in sight, jumps up trees, falls into lakes, gets wet, and you let that happen. That's the excitement of writing plays-to allow the thing to be free but still hold the final leash.

I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it.

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.