I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.
From Harold Pinter
I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.
I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.
I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
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