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One's life has many compartments.
How can the unknown merit reverence?
I can't really articulate what I feel.
I no longer feel banished from myself.
The weasel under the cocktail cabinet.
I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
I also found being called Sir rather silly.
The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.
I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.
Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?
I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.
I saw Len Hutton in his prime, Another time, another time.
One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
I thought the plays would speak for themselves. But they didn't.
The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.
A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.
Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.
There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.
Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since.
Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.
There are places in my heart...where no living soul...has...or can ever...trespass.
I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.
It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never referred to.
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.
I believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons.
Many Americans, we know, are horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.
It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it.
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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.