The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft. - David Hare

---

God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.

---

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none. - David Hare

---

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. - David Hare

---

Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived.

---

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time. - David Hare

---

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

---

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. - David Hare

---

Smiles are the language of love. - David Hare

---

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths. - David Hare

---