She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

All men want their whores to be unhappy.

She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.

The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above.