Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice..

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules..

Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?.

The weasel under the cocktail cabinet..

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay..

The theater's much the most difficult kind of writing for me, the most naked kind, you're so entirely restricted.... I find myself stuck with these c….

There are places in my heart...where no living soul...has...or can ever...trespass..

Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself..

I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attemp….

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 t….

I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the….

I no longer feel banished from myself..

There never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, re….

I thought the plays would speak for themselves. But they didn't..

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..

I believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons..

It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror..

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated..

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

No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all other passions in life, they are bound to fade a….

I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in." But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks….