The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

Pirates could happen to anyone.

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?