Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

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.

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.