It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.