The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done the hard part - made up a story, provided the characters.

I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.