You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.

Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.

The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.

I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.