For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth . . . and the ambitions they had . . . and the things they suffered . . . and the people they loved. They get weaned away from the earth - that's the way I put it - weaned away.

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.