Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

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.

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

All fates are ‘worse than death’.

No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.