“... As with Havel once, I seem to be the only playwright not personally acquainted with the deceased Arthur Miller and with some line on his life and work. Many of his plays I still haven’t seen, though years ago when I was reading everything I could get hold of on America and McCarthyism I came across Miller’s novel Focus, in which a character begins to ...”

“... techniques the GPU might have envied, threatening to sue me for slander’. He suspected William Phillips, Rahv’s co-editor at Partisan Review, of trying to poison him. Schwartz had never enjoyed parties – ‘a traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx’ – but he was present at the notorious occasion in 1960 when Norman Mailer ...”

“... about 15 that have bought and they’ve died off and the flats’ve been sold. Arthur downstairs died over Christmas, and his flat’s for sale. Sonny over in Offenbach, he died just before Christmas and his flat’s up for sale. They’ll be bought by people to be relet on short tenancies. You get to know people, they’re very nice, then ...”