So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.

Because at Yale, each year I was writing a play in a different style. Not that they demanded that, but I was searching as any young artist would be.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.