“If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punish...” — Deborah Moggach Quote

If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

My favourite room in my house is easily the top room, which is a bedroom but also a bathroom, with a big, wooden carved bath, two huge fireplaces and a raised bit in the corner for performances. I've had some really lovely parties and poetry readings up there.

Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.

It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever.

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

I like to have performances where I don't get too beat up and don't take too much punishment. I'm OK doing three or four times a year. That's fine by me.

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

I think people might say I'm a bit of a sucker for punishment.