No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?

If, for instance, we'd made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it. We didn't have to do any alterations for Broadway. I was supposed to go a fortnight before it opened to alter anything that was necessary and there was nothing really.

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.