The body is the garden of the soul.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think anybody does.

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their willLearn to practice moderation.Favours come to us from gods.

There is a difference between depression and sadness. I am happy to be sad.

It might be well enough to wander if you've a place and people to come back to, but I tell you now there's no desolation like wanting to go home and truly not knowing where it is.

Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)

you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for

Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

The highest laws of the land (America) are not only the constitution and constitutional laws, but also contracts.

When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.

I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.