Dramatist Quotes

I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.
I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.
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 don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.
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.
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 never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
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.
I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.
I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
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.
If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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.
Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
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