If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.
From Tom Stoppard
To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?
I've never really worked out this thought, and I don't know if I'm really conscious of it, but I can see there's an attraction about writing about a period that's over and isn't going to change colour while you look at it.
Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero.
I don't draw on my inner life in my work.
I like the notion of theater as recreational.
In the end, one has to feel lucky that things fell out O.K. I've felt that all the years I've been writing plays.
I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers.
My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that.
I always loved rock 'n' roll.
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