I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.

I suppose true sexual equality will come when a general called Anthea is found having an unwise lunch with a young, unreliable model from Spain.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson murdered people; Marlowe was a spy; Shakespeare just sat in the corner and took notes.

Hell must be a place where you are only allowed to read what you agree with.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.