When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?
Tom StoppardYou think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
Tom StoppardThe colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.
Tom Stoppard