Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

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

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.

Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter.

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.