An arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public.

The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.

George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people.

Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.

I 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.

My 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.