“There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.”
“Have you always been so large? (Nora)Aye. I came from my mother’s womb at full height. The shock of it almost killed her. (Ewan)”
“Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.”
“When the hurlyburly's done,When the battle's lost and won.”
“You know, in the real world, there are people who are not actually Kantians....there are even Utilitarians.”
“Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.”