Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.