To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.

She liked it dark when her soul felt black

If you really want to get good at anything, you've got to work at it for ten thousand hours.

Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can. Anger is our real enemy.

Most technology companies are culturally inept. They're never going to get curation right.

If anything is leaking, I try to plug the hole.

If I don't believe the Word of God, why should you believe it? If we don't believe it, why should the world believe us?

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, “What’s the definition of a moderate Arab?” “I don’t know.” “A guy who ran out of ammunition.

I just wanted to be Patti's [Smith] messenger and get her word out there.