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

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

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

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.

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.

When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.