I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.

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

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.

I'm attracted to the past.