People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.
The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.
Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.
What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.
Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations; for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal; for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.