In My Early 20s, I Studied History

I Sincerely Believe That If Bush And Cheney Recognized The Full Humanity Of Other People's Mothers Around The World, They Wouldn't Commit The Crimes They Commit.

And My Singing, I Don't Think I Could Sing Wagner Or Opera, But I Could Probably Carry A Tune. I Was In A Musical Once, But It Was Never Performed.

I'm A Very Lucky Man. It's A Beautiful Thing For A Writer, To See People Allowing Your Words To Enter Their Own Unconscious And Their Souls.

I Grew Up In A Very Polite Family, And I Suppose My Parents Were Both Very Polite, And From The Time I Was A Young Boy, I Suspected That There Were Passions Seething Underneath And Not Being Mentioned, And That Was Something That Came To Preoccupy Me. Somehow I Had Some Drive To Write Down What People Might Really Be Thinking.

For Me, A Play Is A Form Of Writing Which Isn't Complete Until It Is Interpreted By Actors. But It's Still A Form Of Writing. And So Most Of My Time Is Spent Thinking About How To Write A Sentence.