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.

I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

There never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.