Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
Copy Quote View & ShareI don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
Copy Quote View & ShareClinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
Copy Quote View & ShareMy second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
Copy Quote View & ShareI never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
Copy Quote View & ShareMy father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day.
Copy Quote View & ShareI wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.
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