"It's only a mite. It's not as though he created a fully grown Doctor of Philosophy or a strapping great plough boy."

"It's not the opium - it's my mind. I spend every day trying not to think."

"We came to create a revolution of the mind, not to canoodle on a hillock."

"Albatrosses have nothing to do with eel fishing! This is another distraction."

"Sam, opium is not your worst addiction. Your worst addiction is to Wordsworth."

"You have grown such pleasing huge breasts, Sara."

"Well, as it happens, I care. Of course, you can't libel the dead. But this is dreadfully unfair to the Wordsworths. W…"

"Linus Roache as Samuel Taylor Coleridge"

"John Hannah as William Wordsworth"

"Samantha Morton as Sara Coleridge"