Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.

To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a celebrity tourist visiting the set, trying not to get in the way. It's very good for the ego, to go visit a film set if you are the writer, because they give you a special chair, and tell you where you can sit to watch the monitor. They make you feel special, but at the same time, they make it perfectly plain that you are irrelevant!

There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.