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

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'm not interested in observed reality.

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.

Cigarette smoking is injurious to health, After all it's pretty good than peoples.They injurious to Soul

I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore.

How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Everybody talks about population growth and its disastrous effect on climate change, food security and resource depletion, but nobody does anything about it

You never really get to touch anything that you're doing unless you print it out. I don't really enjoy making artwork on a computer because it doesn't seem like I've done anything.

I think our eyes are trained to look for what we want to see.