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 believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

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.

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.

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.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.