It's no use to go and take courses in playwriting any more than it's much use taking courses in acting. Better play to a bad matinée in Hull, it will teach you much more than a year of careful instruction.

Dear 338171 (May I call you 338?)

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Marriage is the aftermath of love.

I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.