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I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed. Then along came this woman who seemed to have no manners at all and said exactly what she thought. Everyone's eyes were popping and their jaws were dropping, and I really enjoyed that.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.

One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed.

The days of the digital watch are numbered.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that.

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.