I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.

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.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?

Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

I have to go with what I do, and what I do has more to do with what people say to each other than telling a story through images. Of course, you're trying to do both. And there are some people who are brilliant at it, but I don't consider myself to be particularly good at it. My mind gets into a verbal mode.