It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
Tom StoppardI write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
Tom StoppardA scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.
Tom Stoppard