People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.
Tom StoppardAn artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.
Tom StoppardHaving translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However, I am not shocked, as it is not hard to find out what the words mean.
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