My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.

Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.

Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.

I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon.

Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again.

London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London.

To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.