I don't know that I want to share all my most intimate secrets.

I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.

What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

I can be affectionate about a lot of things without watching them.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.

My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that.

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.

One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own.

Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.

If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers.

Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.

Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.

If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

I'm not that taken with Freudian perspectives. They seem to be overcomplicated.

It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.

My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely.

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

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