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.

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.

I'd been told of all the things you're meant to feel when your father dies. Sudden freedom, growing up, the end of dependence, the step into the sunlight when no one is taller than you and you're in no one's shadow. I know what I felt. Lonely.

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.

Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.