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.

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.

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

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

There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.