“Life is like the drama on a stage.What was once declared as a sin, perhaps much worse nowadays.”

“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”

“Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really.”

“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

“Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.”

“Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world’s history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.”