Uncertainty is the normal state.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.

Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.