Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.
From Tom Stoppard
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go.
Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.
I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived.
What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?
Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head.
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