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" When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells. "

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

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

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" The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now. "

" One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you. "

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

" One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed. "

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

" James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. "

" Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. "

" I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter, and I find my voice coming back at me with the lines of plays three years old. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose. "

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

" I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays. "