When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

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

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

I'm attracted to the past.

Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours.

No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.