I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.

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

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

I take every possible side.

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.

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.