ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only those writing for theatres. Russian literature is part of the basic background knowledge for any writer. So there is nothing exceptional in the interest I had towards Russian literature and theatre. Frankly, I couldn't image what a culture would be like without sympathy towards Russian literature and Russia, whether we'd be talking about drama or Djagilev.

I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.