Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
From Harold Pinter
One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
One's life has many compartments.
The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
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