I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.

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

Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear