The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.

Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.