Sight Hound

It has always fascinated me, the way people don't talk to one another. A lot of times they don't listen either. Like two radios tuned to different stations, shouting over each other across a flat empty yard. That might be the thing that started me playwriting, how fast people stick to their own agenda. How they never say what they mean, how I don't, how the world teaches us not to.

• Pam Houston