I get most thrill out of throwing myself into the workmen's war--much more than I could ever get, you will admit, out of dancing attendance on my very respectable cousins.

My mother taught me to see everything dramatically.

We have no drama in England at the present moment worth a cent; so I amuse myself with this great tragi-comedy of the working-class movement.

It stirs, pricks, interests me, from morning till night.

I feel the great rough elemental passions in it, and it delights me to know that every day brings us nearer to some great outburst, to scenes and struggles at any rate that will make us all look alive.