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" 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. "

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

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

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

" My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it. "

" I can't remember what my first script was. "

" I think theater ought to be theatrical. "

" 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. "

" If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave a white hole in the page. And I think it's a very healthy attitude to take to writing anything. "

" The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics. "

" I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal. "

" When 'The Dark Side of the Moon' was a new album in 1973, a friend of mine walked into my room where I was working with a copy in his hand and said, 'You really have to do a play about this album.' "

" Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. "

" When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process. "

" Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. "

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

" Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that. "

" I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me. "

" I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music. "

" Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it. "

" 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 can be affectionate about a lot of things without watching them. "

" Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self. "

" I proudly tell people, 'I have no computer,' so as not to be ashamed of having no computer. "

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

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

" 'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything. "

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

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

" The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain. "

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