Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.

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

The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?

Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.

The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.