Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.

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.

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

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

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

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

Look... to go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!'.