Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

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

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.

Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go wrong you have to pass the blame along the line, like pass-the-parcel, till the music stops.

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.