The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.

I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s got to love something.

God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.