Author of quotes: Tom Stoppard

Herzen in my play ["the Coast of utopia," talking (or rather, I forced him to say these words; after all, something of what he says in the play, I borrowed from his works, but this phrase he took from me): "Freedom is something that people give each other, not what you take away from each other." The essence of freedom is that you are giving it - your neighbor, your colleagues. Freedom is the curb itself. Not to say that freedom is my right to play the trumpet in the middle of the night. If you put yourself in the place of another, you are already a free man in the sense that close to me. Afford to give freedom to those who you're around - this is freedom. But free from what? The state has so many restrictions... It's like a Laundry list.

Always carry your childhood with you and you'll never grow old.

We live in the midst of the absurd, so close to him that they themselves did not notice. But if the sky turned into a huge mirror and we accidentally saw it themselves, it would not be able to look each other in the face.

If you look from afar, he continued, the ninth Earl, history of the world - nothing. Revolution is only a trivial increase the suffering; the ability to indulge their weaknesses passed from hand to hand. But the world does not change neither its shape nor its direction. Seasons ruthless elements unchanged. Amid this constancy of human struggle has not a larger scale than swarming insects in the grass, and the street massacres - no more than sucked spider skeleton flies on dusty window sill.

When the battle turns into a farce, the only way to keep the greatness to rise above it.

Death, of course a great misfortune, but still not the greatest, if to choose between her and immortality.

- You know, we probably belong to the school, for which the most important is blood, love and rhetoric...
- Well, take your pick... if there is anything.
Is trudnootdelema, sir. Well, we can give you blood and love without the rhetoric, blood and rhetoric without love; but I can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory - they're all blood, you know.

For a handful of coins can have a private and, so to speak, there is no end in view. The rape of the Sabine women - or rather, sabinyanki - or rather, Alfred. (over his shoulder) get your skirt on, Alfred!

They are two sides of the same coin. Or one side or two, because we've got so much.

The problem is that almost nobody behaves naturally, everyone's acting as if waiting, as if they'd read about himself or see himself in movies. Whole life now. You can not even think of course, because you have already selected the view that you have to Express. Originality is wasted. And still hard to abandon the belief in the uniqueness of man.

Friendliness is the ability to suffer fools gladly.

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not something that... Death is not... It's the lack of presence... Nothing more... the Endless time, during which there is no return.. This is the door into the void... where you can't see... and when there is wind, it does not produce noise.

God has a special sense of humor. He drew our hearts to those who do not have any rights.

From the footnotes, in my opinion, more harm than good. Someone constantly interrupts you to tell you what you already know or what you need to know.