Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after he had finished the writing of Macbeth?

I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy." You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same - any time." That's neither here nor there. I want you to be happy, that's all." You'd make my bed for me?" Perhaps.

Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.

They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.

...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.

They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.