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.

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

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.

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.

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

This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.

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.