Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.

It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.

Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction! Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.