"...a spotless record just waiting to be sullied - it would make anyone's mouth water." The Maniac to Bertozzo, Act 1, Scene 1, Part 1 p. 127.

"You see them up there, little old men like cardboard cutouts, silly wigs on their heads, all capes and ermine ... with two pairs of glasses on cords round their necks because otherwise they'd lose them ... And these characters have the power to wreck a person's life or save it, as and how they want: they hand out life sentences like somebody saying "Maybe it'll rain tomorrow" ... they make the law and they can do what they like ..." Act 1, Scene 1, Part 1 p. 131.

"...let's not start behaving like children. We need to keep on our toes ... we're in the hot seat now ... with all these bloody journalists running round making insinuations ... telling lies ... and don't try to shut me up, because I believe in speaking my mind...