As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.

Love doesn't have a point. Love is the point.

We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.