Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

Far from a normal-functioning relationship, but normal has never been our thing.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

The "difficult" female character can-and will-do the shocking, the unexpected and, as a consequence, will give your story an immediate jolt of energy. She is the character who doesn't fit the mold.

No one can wipe away the injustices of centuries in only eight years.

Rose, do you think I'd do anything that would hurt you.- Dimitri to Rose

So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English

When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it.