Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.

You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence