What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

The audiences certainly have declined. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows.

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.