In Oratory The Will Must Predominate.

I'm Not Good At Standing On Platforms And Persuading People To My Political Point Of View. Nor Would I Seek To. My Gift Is Completely Different. It's For Presenting An Imaginative Version Of The World Which I Hope People Would Recognize And Be Affected By.

I'm Trying To Write Something In Which You Know That It's All About Sex But You Never See Any.

An Inability To Handle Language Is Not The Same Thing As Stupidity.

Obviously Via Dolorosa Is Completely Artificial. It Is As Highly Wrought As Any Of My Plays. But Basically All The Artifice Is To Disguise Itself So You Don't Feel It's There. You're Attempting To Make The Artifice Like A Pane Of Glass That Simply Leads You Through To The Subject - Not To Decorate The Bloody Glass.

Style Is The Art Of Getting Yourself Out Of The Way, Not Putting Yourself In It.