The world is a business, Mr. Beale.

I'm Frederick Beale, Sr. May I talk to you for a moment?

We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale.

Charlotte, Mona's having a little gettogether later on at our house, and she and Freddy Beale and a couple others are having a jam session, or whatever it's called.

And though not real, Eve Harrington, Howard Beale, Mildred Pierce are an opportunity to discover what it is to be human, and no less helpful to understanding our life and times as Shakespeare is in illuminating the world of Elizabethan England.