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" I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process. "

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Falling In Love

" Embarrassingly enough, I often can't remember how I came to write something. "

" I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it; if you're lucky, it's performed, and that's the end of the whole thing. "

" My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. "

" 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. "

" I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong. "

" What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea. "

" In my mind, I always knew what my father looked like. "

" I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner. "

" I think theater ought to be theatrical. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. "

" Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. "

Responsibilities

" I like the notion of theater as recreational. "

" Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour. "

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

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

" Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me. "

" Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. "

" A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set. "

" The way 'star' used to be reserved for a small number of people, and when the star category became so vast, they came up with 'superstar,' and then they came up with 'megastar.' "

" For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge. "

" I take every possible side. "

" Very often in Chekhov, where he exhibits a little bit of human behavior that you recognize as true, you give a little laugh. It's like a reflex. "

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