You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

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

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.

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?

I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.