Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.
Tom StoppardIt was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.
Tom StoppardA man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
Tom StoppardSeduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds meโI spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.
Tom Stoppard