identity Quotes

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me.

Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older.

I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.

I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.

I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.