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I do not pretend to understand the universe. It is a great deal bigger than I am.

—  Tom Stoppard

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course

—  Tom Stoppard

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

—  Tom Stoppard

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.

—  Tom Stoppard

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.

—  Tom Stoppard

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

—  Tom Stoppard

I disagree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.

—  Tom Stoppard

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

—  Tom Stoppard

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.

—  Tom Stoppard