Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

The weasel under the cocktail cabinet.

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

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

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

As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm in control. But the great excitement is to see what happens if you let the whole thing go. And the dog or the character really runs about, bites everyone in sight, jumps up trees, falls into lakes, gets wet, and you let that happen. That's the excitement of writing plays-to allow the thing to be free but still hold the final leash.