“Każdy z nas wie, że jest istotą materialną, podległą prawom fizjologii i fizyki i że siła wszystkich razem wziętych naszych uczuć nie może walczyć z tymi prawami, może ich tylko nienawidzić. Odwieczna wiara zakochanych i poetów w potęgę miłości, która jest trwalsza niż śmierć, owo ścigające nas przez wieki "finis vitae sed non amoris" jest kłamstwem. Ale to kłamstwo jest tylko daremne, nie śmieszne.”
“In his twenties, John Bridgens most identified with Hamlet. The strangely aging Prince of Denmark—Bridgens was quite sure that the boy Hamlet had magically aged over a few theatrical weeks to a man who was, at the very least, in his thirties by Act V—had been suspended between thought and deed, between motive and action, frozen by a consciousness so astute and unrelenting that it made him think about everything, even thought itself.”
“In his twenties, John Bridgens most identified with Hamlet. The strangely aging Prince of Denmark—Bridgens was quite sure that the boy Hamlet had magically aged over a few theatrical weeks to a man who was, at the very least, in his thirties by Act V—had been suspended between thought and deed, between motive and action, frozen by a consciousness so astute and unrelenting that it made him think about everything, even thought itself.”