I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current…

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that.