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.

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

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.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.

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