Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.

A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's not narrative - it's dramaticit's about conflict. It's about forces coming together.

Leaders pull the trigger, but the "shot" belongs to you.

If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions.

Defeat, if you survive it, should mean time for reflection.

Let those who live never forget those who died!

Sanity is not statistical.

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

When NBC told me I got the job, I asked, 'Can we do it from New York?' There was just silence on the phone

I risked getting my tyres nicked by going to Robbie Fowler's home in Liverpool!

To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.