A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.

I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between an audience member and a play - just by the nature of it being an object that you can have in bed with you and that you can keep and page through.

The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been around since Sophocles and Euripides.

I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who is a parent, one must not think of life as an intrusion. At the end of the day, writing has very little to do with writing, and much to do with life. And life, by definition, is not an intrusion.

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.

A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.