He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters? Stuck on to other objects we select? Look at him! ... My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband - a caring citizen - a worshipper of abstract and unifying God. My achievement, however, is more likely to make a ghost!

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.

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

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

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.