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

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

Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

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