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" I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism. "

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

" I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter, and I find my voice coming back at me with the lines of plays three years old. "

" Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me. "

" My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of 1942, the Japanese invasion of Burma and Singapore had started. "

" Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them. "

" When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head. "

" One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't. "

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

" When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all. "

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

" I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play. "

" The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us. "

" Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. "

" Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford Madox Ford if they have one, but I came to read 'Parade's End' when it was suggested via Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen. "

" Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it. "

" There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, you'd lose what was funny. "

" I'm very garrulous, but I don't say anything. "

" 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. "

" If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play. "

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" I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them. "

" I proudly tell people, 'I have no computer,' so as not to be ashamed of having no computer. "

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

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

" The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. "

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

" I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose. "

" I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future. "

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

" My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it. "