…play is about us. And so our struggles to attain justice and decency among ourselves are not simply a why not? Proposition, as Camus thought, but in fact, somehow the tone of the universal process is cast by human decision. I remember when I was a kid…

…was such a case going into it. I mean, if you had known me when I was 19 years old, I was into Jean Paul Sartre, Alfred Camus, Marxism, Freud. I was a jerk and I came down from it and I said, I can't believe it. That was all I could say for…

…you lift the veil, then the screaming elf hordes come bounding in. And when I did it, I was a fan of Sartre and Camus and Jean Janet and situationalism, all this weird kind of european, 20th century spun down, tired out stuff. I was not a believer in…

…it. I remember this from my own intellectual journey. When I was 1415 and 16. The world looked very bleak. And so I read Camus and Sartre and the lesser lights of that dreary french existential school. And because it was true, you had to come to terms…