James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

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

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is.

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.