Every Monster Was A Man

The Arts Are The Only Things That Separate Us From The Other Animals. The Arts Are Not Decorative. ... They Are Essential To Our Comprehension Of Consciousness And Ourselves.

What I Wanted To Get At Is The Value Difference Between Pornographic Playing-cards When You're A Kid, And Pornographic Playing-cards When You're Older. It's That When You're A Kid You Use The Cards As A Substitute For A Real Experience, And When You're Older You Use Real Experience As A Substitute For The Fantasy.

Few Sensible Authors Are Happy Discussing The Creative Process--it Is, After All, Black Magic.

I Stopped Acting When I Was About Nineteen, Twenty, When I Got Thrown Out Of College. I Did Act For About Ten Years. I Don't Know. I Suspect I'm Still A Reasonably Good Actor, But I Don't Really Know That I Want To Get On The Stage Again ... And Having To Say All Those Boring Words By Me Over And Over Again ... I Don't Know If I Want To Do That. Also, I Like A Certain Amount Of Freedom Of Movement, And If You're Acting, You're Stuck In One Place For A Long Time. Having Said That, I Will Probably Be Onstage Next Fall.

I Don't Think I've Ever Written About Me. I'm Not A Character In Any Of My Plays, Except That Boy, That Silent Boy That Turns Up In Three Tall Women.