If Pygmalion is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.

The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them. They may fail in emergencies; but life is not one long emergency: it is mostly a string of situations for which no exceptional strength is needed, and with which even rather weak people can cope if they have a stronger partner to help them out.

Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends

Jeff has been struggling a little bit, but tonight he came to play. We don't have as much talent as the other teams do, but what we do have is hard work. We just worked really hard tonight. Tonight we just worked really hard and came up short.

The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction.