I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.

Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself.

Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!

It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.