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

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" Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. "

" My brain cells are dying in their trillions. "

" 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. "

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

" To be in love with Debo Devonshire is hardly a distinction. "

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

" Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia. "

" Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text. "

" It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. "

" I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon. "

" I don't even know what my voice is to this day. "

" I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism. "

" My father was a doctor in Moravia, in the south of the country. There were a number of Jewish doctors in the hospital there, and at a certain point - almost too late, really, but in time - they were all sent overseas by their employer. "

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

" We're actors. We're the opposite of people. "

" The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong. "

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

" It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. "

" I'm very garrulous, but I don't say anything. "

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

" 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 I see an actor in a role that is really terrifying, no matter how many times I meet him socially, I'm still frightened of him. I think he's going to hit me. "

" It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem with writing is the next line. "

" It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth. "

" I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn. "

" One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't. "

" The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now. "

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

" I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play. "

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