The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.

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.

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.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

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

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.