I said it before and Iโll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: thereโs only movies. Music is still okay, because music is sound track. Ten, fifteen years ago, every arts student wanted to be a novelist or a playwright. Iโd be amazed if you could find a single one now with such a dead-end ambition. They all want to make movies. Not write movies. You donโt write movies. You make movies.
Stephen FryMoney and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.
Stephen FryThis new England we have invented for ourselves is not interested at all in education. It is only interested in training, both material and spiritual. Education means freedom, it means ideas, it means truth. Training is what you do to a pear tree when you pleach it and prune it to grow against a wall. Training is what you give an airline pilot or a computer operator or a barrister or a radio producer. Education is what you give children to enable them to be free from the prejudices and moral bankruptcies of their elders.
Stephen FryI believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something that I'm afraid takes incredibly hard work and we live in an age in which hard work is if not actively deprecated or denigrated it is run away from or ignored.
Stephen Fry