I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.
Tom StoppardAn artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.
Tom StoppardROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?
Tom StoppardThe idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.
Tom Stoppard