We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.

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.

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.

All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.