Pierre Beaumarchais

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.