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

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" In the end, one has to feel lucky that things fell out O.K. I've felt that all the years I've been writing 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. "

" Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older. "

" I am as miserable as anyone - sometimes. "

" My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of 1942, the Japanese invasion of Burma and Singapore had started. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. "

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

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

" It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. "

" I don't draw on my inner life in my work. "

" 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 am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight. "

" With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material. "

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

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

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" I don't feel like a Londoner. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play. "

" For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge. "

" Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them. "

" I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there. "

" All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do not see film work as a continuation of writing for theatre. It is more of an interruption of the writing process. "

" I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me. "

" After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. "

" When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head. "

" A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.' "

" The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. "