There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.