Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

I'm not a person who can spontaneously say funny things.

There is a better way. It is to repudiate our own wisdom and take instead the infinite wisdom of God.

Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

As the yeere is, your pot must seeth.

As Bridget writes to her son, in Bridget Jones' Baby - "if you just keep calm and keep your spirits up, things have a habit of turning out all right, just as they did for me."

Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

I'm hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time.

Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.