 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. |
| While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known. |
| Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world. |
| 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. |
| All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage. |
| Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo. |
| The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay. |
| Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years. |
| Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living. |
| 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. |
| There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false. |
| I think that NATO is itself a war criminal. |
| It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns. |
| One's life has many compartments. |
| 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 ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place. |
| I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired. |
| 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. |
| Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt. |
