Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

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

All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.

The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

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

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