Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks, and underwater hazards through which he or she must be piloted.

We may not be the creme de la creme, but we are the creme de la scum.

There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson murdered people; Marlowe was a spy; Shakespeare just sat in the corner and took notes.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.