...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a good thing - the strict adherence to good manners, the fact that learning a musical instrument is compulsory, as is dancing, performing musicals and an hour's Useful Work every day in order to properly discharge your duty to society. But a cage is still a cage, irrespective of the nature of its bars.

I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.

the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe

I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.

There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.