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.

My scripts are possibly too talkative.

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.

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