"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."

"You can feed him with ideas and images but I go hungry."

"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"