I like the introduction where she says that ‘the solution does not lie in government regulation or getting men to do more around the house, although that would be nice.’ I disagree with her about government regulation.

I disagree with virtually everything I’ve ever seen on Fox News, but I watch it anyway.

It’s very gratifying to grow utterly incensed by the Mail Online and come away from it full of fury and absolute outrage at its prejudice and xenophobia — and support for Brexit.

This is an odd choice because I disagree with almost all his conclusions. He argues that the reign of Augustus sees the Roman élite finally dealing with the problems of the Greek culture that they love and the nasty Greeks they rule. He’s just wrong. They don’t. They carry on loving the culture and despising Greeks. I don’t agree with his methods. He doesn’t argue things. He just tells you stuff.

I would like to write a play which doesn’t disappoint me 20 years later.

I don’t think I am either as ruthlessly selfish as I was then, but I think that unhappiness made me terribly terribly selfish.

There is an awful lot of pious theatre at the moment, where you go to have what you already believed reinforced.

One day you write nothing, the next you write eight pages. It’s not in your hands.

I threw my lot in with the theatre and in terms of the pleasure it's given me, I've never regretted it, not even for a second.

If not, I’ll go to the cinema or answer emails.