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" I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge Wells. "

Falling In Love

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" I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. "

" We're actors. We're the opposite of people. "

" I think theater ought to be theatrical. "

" Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. "

Responsibilities

" With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material. "

" I burn with no causes. "

" It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. "

" The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to do their dissertation. They need to interview me. "

" I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. "

Change The World

" Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting. "

" For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all. "

" I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened. "

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

" When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells. "

" The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. "

" It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant. "

" I've got no interest in educating or instructing people. "

" I'm attracted to the past. "

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

" If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave a white hole in the page. And I think it's a very healthy attitude to take to writing anything. "

" That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the interests of the society or group, including my neighbour. "

" The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong. "

" Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them. "

" Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want. "

" Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging. "

" I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead. "

" If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true. "

" I'm a very boring person. "

" If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight. "

" In my mind, I always knew what my father looked like. "