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Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

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It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

I burn with no causes.

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.

I take every possible side.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put...

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

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've got no interest in educating or instructing people.

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what...

I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

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...

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