Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.

It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.

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

The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.

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.