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

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

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

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

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.

There never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

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