I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain of life. It is unsentimental, it takes us seriously as human beings, it is not condescending. Paradoxically, by seeing pain we are made greater, it becomes a need.

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

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

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.

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