I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with.

I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.