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" If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. "

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

" 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. "

" My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.' "

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

" It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross. "

" In 2005, I got an email from Belarus Free Theatre. They were emailing playwrights in America and England announcing their existence and saying they would like support from us. I wrote back and asked if they wanted us to visit. They said, 'Yes, we'd love that.' "

" I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet. "

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

" The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to do their dissertation. They need to interview me. "

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

" I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge Wells. "

Falling In Love

" Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time. "

" A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. "

" I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them. "

" If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true. "

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

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

" In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?' "

" If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation. "

" What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance? "

" In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. "

" You can't go around chasing your own plays and showing up every time somebody does one somewhere. You just cross your fingers and hope that they're OK. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Change The World

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