I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you...
For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
Bernard: ... By the way, Valentina, do you want credit? - 'the game book recently discovered by.'?Valentine: It was never lost, Bernard.Bernard: 'As recently pointed out by.' I don't normally like giv...
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify--capriciously--their urge for immortality. The temples are built and brought down around him, continuously and contiguously, from Troy to the fields...
What freedom means, is being allowed to sing in my bath as loudly as will not interfere with my neighbour's freedom to sing a different tune in his.
Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.
Why do I have a sense of impending disaster? Sonders is after my niece and has discovered the secret address where I am sending her to the safe keeping of my sister-in-law Miss Blumenblatt, who has ne...
We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those left behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die o...
There are no commitments, only bargains. And they have to be made again every day. You think making a commitment is it. Finish. You think it sets like a concrete platform and it'll take any strain you...
The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
Screenplay ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD: THE FILM Radio Plays THE PLAYS FOR RADIO 1964–1983 IN THE NATIVE STATE Fiction LORD MALQUIST AND MR MOON
Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat?Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-bei...
I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.
GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear
Even a single coin has music in it, should it be gold.- the player
Do not despair—many are happy much of the time; more eat than starve, more are healthy than sick, more curable than dying; not so many dying as dead; and one of the thieves was saved. Hell's bells and...
Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Be...
Getting away with murder must be quite easy provided that one’s motive is sufficiently inscrutable.
To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.