There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.

One forgets so quickly one's own youth.

Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.

We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.