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

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" 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 idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live. "

" A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. "

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

" I am good at being shown something and counterpunching. "

" I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the word - at the exact point where the audience has just the right amount of information. It's like Occam's razor. "

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

" I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays. "

" You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to. "

" Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm attracted to the past. "

" 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?' "

" I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers. "

" 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 am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties - axioms - that led to others. "

" If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way. "

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

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" As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then I was airlifted again to India. "

" I think journalism is important. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that's the way I was thinking. But my actual experience is that the best way to find out what the structure is, is by writing the play out laterally. You just have got to be brave enough to start without knowing where you are going. "

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

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

" I always loved rock 'n' roll. "