"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself."

“Trinidad Theatre Workshop”

“I never thought I would see the day when America would become so self-centered and hypocritical. I mean if democracy considers liberal to be a term of abuse, then we should be terrified. A liberal is someone who belives in liberty. And if it is wrong to be liberal, then the other side has to be facist.”

“I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.”

“Boston Playwrights' Theatre”

“Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe … I don’t think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.”

“Lannan Foundation Reading and Conversation With Glyn Maxwell”