There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.
I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
Listen. You know what it's like when you're in a room with the light on and then suddenly the light goes out? I'll show you. It's like this.He turns out the light.BLACKOUT
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
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.
All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: 'Antigone,' 'Mother Courage,' 'All My Sons.' But, if I tackle a political theme, I have to d...
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.
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.
هناك أشياء يستطيع الإنسان أن يتذكرها ولو أنها لم تحدث إطلاقا. هناك أمور أتذكرها ربما لم تحدث أبدا، لكن عندما أسترجعها تحتل مكانا في خيالي.
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
RUTH: If you take the glass…I’ll take you.
You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remains forever, icy and silent.
The majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignor...
No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.
As it is?
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 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 think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.