Samuel West

Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.

What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.

My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.