We must be born with an intuition of mortality.

...reality, the name we give to the common experience.

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.