I thought if I was going to live a life in this land I was accidentally born on, I must people it; I must have a history. . .. I'm looking for these people inside me, wherever they may be; that is my form of research.

And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth.

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.

For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.

Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.

I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.

It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.