American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.

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.

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

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

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.