On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?

We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.