When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

Give us this day our daily mask.

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

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.

Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.