“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.”
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
