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.

Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress

We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.

Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don’t go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one’s memory. And yet, I can’t remember it.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.