Robert Bolt — British Playwright born on August 15, 1924, died on February 12, 1995

Robert Oxton Bolt, CBE was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and A Man for All Seasons, the latter two of which won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay... (wikipedia)

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.
Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.
The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.