All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.

When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.

People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.

If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous use of space. Cinemahas access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space.

My ignorance is not charming.

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.