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

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

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 believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.