My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.

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.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

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

Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.