I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

I'm not interested in observed reality.

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

It is impossible - now, at this point in the long journey of human culture - to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither accident, nor malformation, nor malice, nor misunderstanding, that it is integral to the human character both in its inflicting and in its suffering, this terrible sense Tragedy alone has articulated, and will continue to articulate, and in so doing, make beautiful...

I'm not interested in entertainment.