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

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

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.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

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.