Trouble is, son, the farther you run
— Stephen Sondheim, Into the Woods
The more you’ll feel undefined
For what you have left undone, and more
What you’ve left behind
We disappoint, we leave a mess, we die, but we don’t
We disappoint in turn, I guess. Forget, though, we won’t
Quotes
One regards oneself as an individual, Aunt Bridget. Types are other people. The Holly and the Ivy
You don’t understand the humiliation of it — to be tricked out of the single assumption which makes our existence viable — that somebody is watching … Don’t you see?! We’re actors — we’re the opposite of people!
The Player, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow.
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Good Omens