I also found being called Sir rather silly.

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.

Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

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.

There are places in my heart...where no living soul...has...or can ever...trespass.

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

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.