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

I'm not interested in observed reality.

I'm not interested in entertainment.

The artist who makes himself accessible is self-destructive.

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

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

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...