The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.

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

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

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.