I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.

To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.

I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself.

The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.