 Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there? |
| 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. |
| I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate. |
| The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember. |
| This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement. |
| 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 mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past? |
| I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks. |
| A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work. |
| One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all. |
| There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules. |
| If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect. |
| I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz. |
| One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. |
| I also found being called Sir rather silly. |
| 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. |
| It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked. |
| I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either. |
| Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated. |
| The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them. |
