Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.

People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.

I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.