You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.