If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.

Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.