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" I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play. "

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" The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live. "

" Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that. "

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" Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. "

" It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant. "

" I'm good at being funny. "

" To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65? "

" I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner. "

" One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time. "

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" After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. "

" Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really. "

" I'm attracted to the past. "

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" It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. "