Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction! Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is.

There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.

I can't remember what my first script was.

I enjoy writing dialogue; it comes naturally to me.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.