Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

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

Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

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.

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.

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress