'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it's something that theatre can do, but it's rare; it's very rare.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.