I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.
Patrick MarberLying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.
Patrick MarberThe trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.
Patrick Marber