I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?

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 ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

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 tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

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