I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.Tom Stoppard
I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.Tom Stoppard
If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.Tom Stoppard
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.Napoleon Hill
