J. B. Priestley

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.