Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.