Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean don't they and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
If Milosevic is to be tried he has to be tried by a proper court an impartial properly constituted court which has international respect.
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
I mean don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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.
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
Most of the press is in league with government or with the status quo.
I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
My second play The Birthday Party I wrote in 1958 – or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
