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.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

Save the gerund and screw the whale.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.