To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.

It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.