A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.

Well, we'll know better next time.

Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.

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.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

...Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?