A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?

Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.