“You can't get blood from a turnip!”
“Get off me you dirty turnip!" "Dirty turnip? well, pardon me Signor Cabbage-Head!”
“Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.”
“If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.”
“People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused. ”
“when they're bathed in blood everyday you can't expect them to rise from it stainless the next morning.”