Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

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

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.