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" I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely. "

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" I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses. "

" I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that's the way I was thinking. But my actual experience is that the best way to find out what the structure is, is by writing the play out laterally. You just have got to be brave enough to start without knowing where you are going. "

" I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me. "

" Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it. "

" As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then I was airlifted again to India. "

" I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band. "

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

" To be in love with Debo Devonshire is hardly a distinction. "

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

" I'm attracted to the past. "

" Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really. "

" I always loved rock 'n' roll. "

" A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. "

" James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. "

" I don't know that I want to share all my most intimate secrets. "

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

" Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.' "

" When 'The Dark Side of the Moon' was a new album in 1973, a friend of mine walked into my room where I was working with a copy in his hand and said, 'You really have to do a play about this album.' "

" I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes. "

" I don't draw on my inner life in my work. "

" I've got no interest in educating or instructing people. "

" I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal. "

" I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play. "

" A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.' "

" My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely. "

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

" My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful. "

" A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times. "

" Corporeal death is not the whole story. "

" Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. "