I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.
I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.
I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.
All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
The theater's much the most difficult kind of writing for me, the most naked kind, you're so entirely restricted.... I find myself stuck with these characters who are either sitting or standing, and they've either got to walk out of a door, or come in through a door, and that's about all they can do.
There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.
I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
I thought the plays would speak for themselves. But they didn't.
There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.
As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm in control. But the great excitement is to see what happens if you let the whole thing go. And the dog or the character really runs about, bites everyone in sight, jumps up trees, falls into lakes, gets wet, and you let that happen. That's the excitement of writing plays-to allow the thing to be free but still hold the final leash.
I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.
Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice.
Watching first nights, though I've seen quite a few by now, is never any better. It's a nerve-racking experience. It's not a question of whether the play goes well or badly. It's not the audience reaction, it's my reaction. I'm rather hostile toward audiencesI don't much care for large bodies of people collected together. Everyone knows that audiences vary enormously; it's a mistake to care too much about them. The thing one should be concerned with is whether the performance has expressed what one set out to express in writing the play. It sometimes does.
Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
I can't really articulate what I feel.
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the sense that I find there is an audience.
It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
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