Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine. To be able to break out of its dark brown sameness.

You'd be surprised how many kings are only a queen with a moustache.

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not so much a purity of heart as the knowledge that they face a firing line with rifles aimed in exactly the same direction.

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.

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