We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

...Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?

Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.

Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!

It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.