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.

What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.

The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces.