I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.