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" Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life. "

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" I think journalism is important. "

" Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night. "

" What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea. "

" 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. "

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

" If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation. "

" There are many, many more small theater spaces than there were when I was starting out. "

" Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. "

" Good things, when short, are twice as good. "

" I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays. "

" Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want. "

" The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. "

" I don't find it easy to think of good stuff to write about. "

" I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did. "

" Possibly because I did start off as a journalist, my starting point has always been that you've got to keep an audience with you. Whatever you're doing, you always want a script to be a page-turner. It's very important never, ever, to feel above that. "

" I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there. "

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

" Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour. "

" I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all education. "

" If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true. "

" My brain cells are dying in their trillions. "

" It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. "

" I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened. "

" I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn. "

" I'm good at being funny. "

" Corporeal death is not the whole story. "

" I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop. "

" I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt. "

" It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. "

" I like the notion of theater as recreational. "