“All that Shakespeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.”

“But yonder comes the powerful king of day,
Rejoicing in the east.”

“Looking for God—or Heaven—by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters or Stratford as one of the places. Shakespeare is in one sense present at every moment in every play.”

“So Bertrand Russell once said to me that the pupil in school should study whatever he liked. I asked whether this was not a crime against the pupil. … Should he be allowed to grow up without knowing Shakespeare? … Lord Russell replied that he would require a boy to read one play of Shakespeare; if he did not like it, he should not be compelled to read any more.”

“People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.”

“arguing with a moron; is like reading Shakespeare to a lump of wood”

“I imagine that God Himself frequently wants to feel like a king. Why else would He create the world?”

“Cocoa? Cocoa! Damn miserable puny stuff, fit for kittens and unwashed boys. Did Shakespeare drink cocoa?”

“Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.”

“I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric…”