[Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone w….

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now..

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake..

You make beauty and it disappears, I love that..

People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings….

There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that, because plays are about the who….

What I like about a dog it stops people getting after you, they're not going to come round in the night. But they make the place stink because I migh….

England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is….

We’ve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We’ve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. We’ve got thirty per cent the ….

Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her use of the sp….

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit..

Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white..

NELL. Because that's what an employer is going to have doubts about with a lady as I needn't tell you, whether she's got the guts to push through to ….

How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?.

You can't win every week..

I'd go without food if I could have a flower..

Parties are a cruel kind of fun..