“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.”
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I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
I 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.
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.