I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.

There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.

I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way, are very old-fashioned. They’re pre-Freudian in the sense that the Greeks and Shakespeare worked with similar assumptions. Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.

We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race.

Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.