There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.

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.

Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.

One forgets so quickly one's own youth.

For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew.

...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.