Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?
All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.
I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.
Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.
Look... to go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!'.
It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.
Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.
I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.
I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.
All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.
Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.
You can't always let people do their own thing.
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.
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