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

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" I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. "

" I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean. "

" The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. "

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

" If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play. "

" I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm. "

" Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time. "

" Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I've listened to a lot and whose concerts I've been to. I love the experience. I don't dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else. "

" The more doors there are for you to open, the better the play. "

" The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to do their dissertation. They need to interview me. "

" I burn with no causes. "

" It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant. "

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

" You can't go around chasing your own plays and showing up every time somebody does one somewhere. You just cross your fingers and hope that they're OK. "

" Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much. "

" The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live. "

" I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament. "

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

" I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained. "

" We're actors. We're the opposite of people. "

" In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. "

" I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean. "

" 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. "

" Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. "

" Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. "

" Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe. "

" From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. "

" 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. "

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

" I can be affectionate about a lot of things without watching them. "