Of all the bete, clumsy, blundering, boggling, baboon-blooded stuff I ever saw on a human stage, that thing last night beat - as far as the acting and story went - and of all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsiturviest, tuneless and scrannelpipiest - tongs and boniest - doggerel of sounds I ever endured the deadliness of, that eternity of nothing was the deadliest, so far as the sound went. I never was so relieved, so far as I can remember in my life, by the stopping of any sound - not excepting railway whistles - as I was by the cessation of the cobbler's bellowing.

In great states, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents wanting to make men and women of them. In vile states, the children are always …

My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. I was absolutely interested in men and their …

Engraving is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.

When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them.

Then to the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer's Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous …

Many people tell me that my poetry is awful. And, for the life of me, I can't decide if they are right, or just stupid.