I'm not interested in observed reality.

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

I don't like sympathetic characters.

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.

The artist who makes himself accessible is self-destructive.

I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

I'm not interested in entertainment.

listen to me, you’ve got this.seriously, you’ve got this.

Follow your heart’s intuition by pursuing the things you truly love.

You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again!

That was a good fight back in the gym,” he said. “But I think you could benefit from a few more boxing lessons.

Meet me inside the Edge of the Icepack penguin enclosure in at four fifteen" she says, sounding just like Kim Possible. If Kim Possible ever asked people to meet her inside a penguin enclosures.

I look at the time with you to keep me awake and alive.

When astrology was conceived, all of the celestial bodies were in different places. So if you're a Sagittarius now, I guess you would have been a Capricorn 2,000 years ago.

Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy.

Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.

Maybe they just like me because they like me, and they don't like me because they feel like they have to like me because they like this person or that person.