Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his most endearing qualities.

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!

No, it's the musicians and I must say they are an accomplished bunch, but odd, as musicians tend to be. Is it the vibration from their instruments, do you suppose, working on the brain? All that fraught buzzing?

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.