Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

You can't always let people do their own thing.

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.