I get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for action in so many modern plays.

Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

For a good man fame is always a problem.

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.