The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word..

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?.

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

One's life has many compartments..

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened..

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression..

The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen w….

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

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….

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 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….

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

I no longer feel banished from myself..

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

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

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

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

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….

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

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….

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..