I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

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.

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.

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.

Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

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