There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.

Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.

Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.