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

...Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.

And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

Save the gerund and screw the whale.

When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility for a play about two people, and suddenly the officer is finding all manner of exotic contraband like the nature of God and identity, and while he can't deny that they're there, he can't for the life of him remember putting them there. In the end, a play is not the product of an idea; an idea is the product of a play.