You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

I could have been a Judge, but I never had the Latin for the judgin'. I never had it, so I'd had it, as far as being a judge was concerned... I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

I went to the University of Life and was chucked out.

You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

I didn't know dirty words could be done that artfully.

All in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner. And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you are too old and tired and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. Well, the very opposite applies with judges. *

The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room.