One's life has many compartments.

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

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

Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

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