The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

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.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?

What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?

Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order