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" Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? "

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" The whole thing about writing a play is that it's all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to the audience. It's a stream of information, but you've got your hand on the tap, and you control in which order the audience receives it and with what emphasis, and how you hold it all together. "

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" I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers. "

" It's very common for people to recommend something to me because they're going on what I've already written, when, what really is the case, is that you want to write about something you haven't written about, in ways that you haven't done before. "

" Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. "

" After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. "

" The way 'star' used to be reserved for a small number of people, and when the star category became so vast, they came up with 'superstar,' and then they came up with 'megastar.' "

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" Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect. "

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" I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon. "

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" If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight. "

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" Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. "

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Change The World

" Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self. "

" Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia. "

" There are too many things I find it difficult to say 'no' to. "

" When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was was secondary. I wanted it to be in hardback. I didn't care how thick or thin it was, and I didn't actually care what it was about. "

" I really just like to be at a desk. "

" A free press needs to be a respected press. "