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

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

" I write out of my intellectual experience. "

" I can't remember what my first script was. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech. "

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

" Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not. "

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

" I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. "

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

" Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it. "

" The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well. The problems start on the third day, and continues for the rest of your life. "

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

" As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that. "

" To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65? "

" I really just like to be at a desk. "

" You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. "

" One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you. "

" If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. "

" The days of the digital watch are numbered. "

" 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. "

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

" You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation. "

" Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays. "

" The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. "

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

" Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero. "

" One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit. "

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