I operate my life like a startup. I learn a little bit and I test something else out and I keep iterating and iterating until it's perfect.

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

You will stay with me. You will sleep here at my side and you will touch me. I am depressed but not when you stroke my chest.

Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.

I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

If I tell the Berliners to step forward, they do it. If I tell the Viennese to step forward, they do it, but then they ask why.

I defy any woman who is pregnant and trying to concentrate really hard not to feel distracted.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?