Occupation: Dramatist Birth: May 17, 1935 Death: June 7, 1994
We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there..
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land..
To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there..
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young..
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself..
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself..
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood..
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in..
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness..
A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew..
Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage..
Everything we do has consequences..
Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them and not just say, 'Oh they're all the same.' They are all th….
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality..
Metaphor is embodied in language..
A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast..
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself..
I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it..
I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not pr….
I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves..
I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm qui….