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I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.

What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea.

I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong.

I don't find it easy to think of good stuff to write about.

My brain cells are dying in their trillions.

When I was 20, the idea of having a play on anywhere was just beyond my dreams.

I think theater ought to be theatrical.

I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened.

There are too many things I find it difficult to say 'no' to.

I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

Tom Stoppard