If Shakespeare's great plays are variants of stories, even novels, you can see how each character is telling his story from his perspective; each is vying with the others for dominance, but in the end, in tragedy, most of these voices will die, to be replaced by the yet more vigorous voice of a younger generation.

Tragedy is the highest form of art.

I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love I love I love I love but you do not.

The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.

I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?