“Show them a stony heart and sink them with it”

“It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves”

“Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him.Willy: Then what have I got to remember?”

“Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.”

“Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief. I think she'll wake when she tires of it. A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.”

“...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.”

“On the day the world is blown up, the playwright whose show opened the night before will be leafing past the news section of the Times to find his review--as he ascends through the stratosphere, oblivious.”