You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.

Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?

In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.

Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.

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

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.