Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.