Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.

Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can’t provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own.

Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.

To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.