Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

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

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.

Sex is a conversation carried out by another means.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

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