On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.

We must be born with an intuition of mortality.

Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.

I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.