"On the stage it is always now," Thornton Wilder famously wrote.

Voltaire famously wrote that he had been shot "to encourage the others" (admirals).

Hobbes famously wrote in Leviathan: "reason is nothing but reckoning".

Clinton famously wrote of the battle that it was "A dear bought victory, another such would have ruined us."

Although the playwright himself famously wrote an alternate, more sedate ending for a German production, he might well argue this point.

George Carlin famously wrote the joke "it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it".

Hassan al-Banna famously wrote that people are the source of authority.

As Joan Didion famously wrote, we tell ourselves stories in order to live.

As he famously wrote to his brother Theo: "I want to do drawings which touch some people."