I ought not to have stirred, I was swept into the dance, caught up in the whirling movement of things. Being in Time means running after the present.… - Eugène Ionesco

AMÉDÉE: Slavery has been abolished, my love . . .
MADELEINE: I’m not your love . . .
AMÉDÉE: Slaves belong to the past . . .
MADELEINE: Well, I’m a modern slave, then!

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

It’s a play about the life and martyrdom of a modern saint, who has just been canonized by the Church — or is it beatified? Which comes first? I’m not sure. Anyway, his name was Father Maximilian Kolbe, a Pole, and he died in Auschwitz. They were going to send some prisoners to a mine, where they would die of hunger and thirst. Father Kolbe offered to go instead of a man who had a wife and children and didn’t want to die. That man is still alive. … It won’t matter to me at all whether the Church canonizes him or not. The important thing is that such a man existed. -->