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For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.

For me, if I'm going to do a play, I prefer to do something with language that I don't get to speak on TV.

Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.

I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

Communication is something we all take for granted.

There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.