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I don't like sympathetic characters.

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

I'm not interested in observed reality.

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

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

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

You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool

The artist who makes himself accessible is self-destructive.

I'm not interested in entertainment.

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.