The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.

The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.