Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.

Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.