It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.

Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth, pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we hold in honour. We are moved towards what is good by the faint memory of these forms, simple and calm and blessed, which we saw once in a pure, clear light, being pure ourselves.

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.

I am not famous for anything in particular. I am just famous.

Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.