Tom Stoppard

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Death followed by eternity . . . the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought

Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where is it going to end?

Every exit is an entrance somewhere else.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.