I can't really articulate what I feel.

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

I'll tell you what I really think about politicians. The other night I watched some politicians on television talking about Vietnam. I wanted very much to burst through the screen with a flame thrower and burn their eyes out and their balls off and then inquire from them how they would assess the action from a political point of view.

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

I also found being called Sir rather silly.