"The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent."

“I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.”

Source : Edward Bond (2014). “Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion”, p.3, A&C Black

“So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.”

“Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent.”

“The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo.”

“A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars.”

“One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.”

“Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to beat the other party. In Iran, where we have different religions and ethnic groups, it was a unifying factor.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.”