- Diana: Tom, should you be leaving like this?
- Tom: No.
- Diana: Well, maybe you shouldn't.
- Tom: Of course I shouldn't.
- Diana: Well then, why are you?
- Tom: Oh God, woman, don't you ever listen to your own lectures? To stay alive, one must be bloody-minded and contrary at all times!
- Diana: Well, maybe I was just theorising.
- Diana: Pain is experience, Tom!
- Tom: Experience for what?
- Diana: For its own sake. Now, if we were to shoot ourselves, there would be a moment when we would know what it felt like to be shot. We would be more complete human beings. Metaphysically, that is. Physically, of course, we'd be slightly less complete human beings.
- Doctor: He went on to say that most of his chums had died and he wanted to be able to join them.
- Jane: Yes, we get a lot of that round here. Death seems to come in waves; one goes and the others all pop off in sympathy.
- Harvey Bains: Not that we encourage it, of course.
- Jane: Oh, no, it's not policy, is it?