I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
EMMA:You know what I found out ... last night? He's betrayed me for years. He's had... other women for years.JERRYNo? Good Lord.(Pause)But we betrayed him for years.EMMAAnd he betrayed me for years.JE...
There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matt...
I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.
I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.
Did you think of her as your best friend?-she was my only friend.-your best and only.-my one and only. if you have only one of something you can't say it's the best of anything.
Philosophy is a process of inquiry only. It doesn't attempt to find specific answers to specific questions.
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.
JERRY: Look at the way you're looking at me. I can't wait for you. I'm bowled over, I'm totally knocked out, you dazzle me, you jewel, my jewel, I can't ever sleep again, no, listen, it's the truth, I...
EMMA It was never intended to be the same kind of home. Was it? Pause. You didn’t ever see it as a home, in any sense, did you? JERRY No, I saw it as a flat . . . you know. EMMA For fucking. JERRY No,...
If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
JERRY: I was best man at your wedding. I saw you in white. I watched you glide by in white.EMMA: I wasn’t in white.JERRY: You know what should have happened?EMMA: What?JERRY: I should have had you, in...
But death permits youTo arrange your hours
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
In other words apart from the known and the unknown what else is there?
You wouldn't understand my works. You wouldn't have the faintest idea of what they were about. You wouldn't appreciate the points of reference. You're way behind. All of you. There's no point in sendi...
When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.
What sound was that?I turn away, into the shaking room.What was that sound that came in on the dark? What is this maze of light it leaves us in? What is this stance we take, To turn away and then turn...
There are places in my heart...where no living soul...has...or can ever...trespass.
The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of