Charlie Higson credited as playing...
Various Roles • Simon • Ralph • Bob Fleming • Newlywed Husband • Gizmo Narrator • Lord Ralph Mayhew • Classical Music Intellectual • Colin Hunt • Indecent Exposure Actor • Isle of Man Resident • Johnny Unpronounceable • Mikki Disco
- Swiss Toni: Putting up a tent is very much like making love to a beautiful woman. Unzip the door, put up your pole, and slip into the old bag.
- Johnny: [Out watercolour painting] The rain is the sky's blood, pierced by the arrows of foolhardiness!
- Johnny's Wife: Sophocles!
- Johnny: [Holds up a glass of wine] Ah, the grape! Dark... and black...
- Johnny's Wife: Johnny...
- Johnny: The blackness! The end! Where are we sleeping tonight, Mother? In Father's Grave!
- Johnny: I don't want to die! They wait for me in the forest...
- Johnny's Wife: Johnny?
- Johnny: The mounts are heavy and full of woe! I'm a fly! Trapped in a bottle of shadows!
- Johnny: My word look at that sky! We'll have to work like demons to get it down. Look at the contrasts, the whites, the black... You lock me in the cellar and feed me pins! Pins! Pins! Ew!
- Johnny's Wife: I think we'd better be getting home, now, Johnny.
- Johnny: What's for tea, Mother? Maggots on Toast?
- Johnny: Listen! Do you hear? The Moon! It's weeping in a Secret Room. They tap at my window, with tiny poles!
- Various Roles: It must be your birthday, Charlie.
- Various Roles: You brought the cake have you?
- Various Roles: I brought the icing.
- Various Roles: You impress me, Mr. McGann.