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" I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music. "

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" The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world. "

" I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking. "

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

" I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays. "

" I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them. "

" It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator. "

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

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

" I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. "

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" I take every possible side. "

" You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form. "

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

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

" I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial. "

" When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now. "

" I burn with no causes. "

" A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. "

" The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work. "

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

" If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. "

" Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond. "

" I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over. "

" I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead. "

" I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education. "

" I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. "

" I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes. "

" Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. "

" 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. "

" That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the interests of the society or group, including my neighbour. "

" My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that. "