The majority don't like me before the curtain goes up, and I always have to win them.

- David Hare

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

- David Hare

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

- David Hare

I believe love opens people up.

- David Hare

Smiles are the language of love.

- David Hare

My father always said 'There's no free lunch.' My father was right. There's no free lunch and there's no free market. The market is rigged, the marke…

- David Hare

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel dea…

- David Hare

What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want p…

- David Hare

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

- David Hare