Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.

I see a great lack of stories around. I bought six literary magazines and looked through them to see what people were doing. There wasn't a story in them. They were all about how poetic the feelings of the author were.

In life most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. Bad improvisers block action often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

When you want to have entertainment, it must be a waste of time. I don't like that. I don't like improvisation being pointless.

Wherever you go it's the same fear. And the same protective devices. There is one big error I think and partly my fault which is that a lot of things are taught to beginners which you can cast off later on.

Very hard to get an audience. So if you're going to fill the theatre, you can't just rely on old stuff.

Truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.