Are all the people mad?
(Twelfth Night)
I felt rather lonely this morning so I went and unbox’d a Shakespeare – ‘There’s my Comfort’.
(John Keats)
INTERVIEWER: Which are your favorite contemporary writers?
NABOKOV: Shakespeare.
INTERVIEWER: We said ‘contemporary’.
NABOKOV: Always Shakespeare.
My offering is a period piece. I hope you may enjoy looking back over my shoulder.
(David Niven, The Moon’s a Balloon)