Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.

I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.

I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.