The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.
From Tom Stoppard
My father was a doctor in Moravia, in the south of the country. There were a number of Jewish doctors in the hospital there, and at a certain point - almost too late, really, but in time - they were all sent overseas by their employer.
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.
I burn with no causes.
I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.
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