Christmas is at our throats again.

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

I don't think pornography is harmful, but it is terribly, terribly boring.

In the first act, you get the audience's attention - once you have it, they will repay you in the second. Play through the laughs if you have to. It will only make the audience believe there are so many of them that they missed a few.

Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

You kissed me because you were awfully nice and I was awfully nice and we both liked kissing very much. It was inevitable.