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.

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

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

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.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

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

I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it.