I am certainly an ought and not a must.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat characters ... in their purest form ... are constructed round a single idea or quality; when there is more than one factor to them, we get the beginning of the curve toward the round. The really flat character can be experessed in one sentence such as, "I will never desert Mr Micawber." There is Mrs Micawber - she says she won't desert Mr Micawber; she doesn't, and there she is.

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

Man can learn everything if he will but try.