I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. When true silence falls we are left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

I believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons.

One's life has many compartments.

I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.

Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.