All reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean-hoofed on to a whole new track of being I only suspect is there. I can't see it, because my educated, average head is being held at the wrong angle. I can't jump because the bit forbids it, and my own basic force - my horsepower, if you like - is too little.

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.

The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

You have your words, and I have mine.

The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.