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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes. "

" 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. "

" Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe. "

" 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. "

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

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

" When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now. "

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

" One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time. "

" 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. "

" Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. "

Responsibilities

" 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 feel overestimated. "

" I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained. "

" I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge Wells. "

Falling In Love

" 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. "

" In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me. "

" All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque. "

" My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.' "

" We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. "

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

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

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

" I'm a very boring person. "