The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

In a lot of writing or intellectual discourse we're starting to use that model: "Oh, this is where it comes from!" I would like to concentrate on work which is more resistant to that procedure, as I think fiction is.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.