I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

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.

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.

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

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