There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.
Tom StoppardWar is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.
Tom StoppardI was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
Tom Stoppard