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.

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

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 never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

Women

Faith declares what the senses do not see but not the contrary of what they see.

Someone once said you could tell the people who were in the most successful relationships by the bite marks on their tongues.

You're going to need a stronger stomach if you're going to be back in the kitchen seeing how the sausage is made.

In the course of an individual being's evolution we will practice each of these yogas. One path is not superior to another.

Pakistan would be confident after their series win over England. The series will be a very close and good contest and if all the players play to their potential we're in for some wonderful cricket.

Make the second effort your second nature.

You'll remember someone who broke your heart, and you'll think to yourself, 'Oh yes, I remember how that feels.' But you can't.

People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people.

I know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what context.