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

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" The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. "

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

" 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. "

" I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely. "

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

" Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change. "

" 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. "

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

" Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really. "

" 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. "

" To wrap up the idea of 'Parade's End' in a sentence or two, I would say it's a love story in which we see a man with two women, and we know what's attractive about them. And we know why and what they feel about him. "

" Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society. "

" The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain. "

" If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. "

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

" The days of the digital watch are numbered. "

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

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

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

" I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the way plays are structured. "

" I would count myself as a friend of Vaclav Havel. "

" 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. "

" 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 attracted to the past. "

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

" People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that. "

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

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

" Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power. "