Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

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.

It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant.

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.

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.

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

I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.