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Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'

At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.

I love shawls!

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

There was Shawon Dunston and Mark Grace, and together we were a double play combination for ten years.

The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

A play is a passion.

My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine.