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.

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

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

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.

Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.