There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.

I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me.