It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.

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

The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren't supposed to be in that part of the plan.