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" My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 don't act, I don't direct, I don't design. "

" Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I've listened to a lot and whose concerts I've been to. I love the experience. I don't dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else. "

" I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. "

" If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted. "

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

" If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play. "

" I'm a very boring person. "

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

" People think I'm very nice, you know. And I'm not as nice as they think. "

" It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society. "

" From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. "

" The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority. "

" The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them. "

" Possibly because I did start off as a journalist, my starting point has always been that you've got to keep an audience with you. Whatever you're doing, you always want a script to be a page-turner. It's very important never, ever, to feel above that. "

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

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

" I always loved rock 'n' roll. "

" I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education. "

" In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers. "

" Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't find it easy to think of good stuff to write about. "

" If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play. "

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" I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection. "

" I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them. "