Tom Stoppard

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives read more

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

Pirates could happen to anyone.

Pirates could happen to anyone.

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death read more

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound...