I believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons.

When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

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.

I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it.

It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.

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.