If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

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

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 don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.

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.

Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.