A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no.

The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.

The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.

Julie Andrews has a wonderful British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India.

Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.