Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon Quotes

“I got dizzy," he explained.
I should think you did. What were you doing?'
Nothing," said Moon. "I was trying to face one way or the other and I got confused and fell over."
Let that be my epitaph.”
― Tom Stoppard, Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon

“I have three copies of the first edition, which sold in double figures, speaking loosely; there was a moment when Blond's 'Lord Malquist and Mr Moon' sold 67 copies, or some such number, in Venezuela - a mystery I never solved. I have never been to Venezuela. I remember going into Foyles' bookshop in 1966 and being gratified to see a stack of Malquist-and-Moons on the New Fiction table. I counted them; there were twelve. A week or two later I went in again; there they were. I counted them again; there were thirteen! I saw at once what was happening. People were leaving my book at bookshops.”
― Tom Stoppard, Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon

“Moon felt as if the conversation was a weight he had to drag along on the end of a rope.”
― Tom Stoppard, Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon: A Novel

“We live amidst absurdity, so close to it that it escapes our notice.”
― Tom Stoppard, Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon: A Novel

“The whole of life is like that now. It’s even impossible to think naturally because opinion has been set out for you to read back. Originality has been used up. And yet faith in one’s uniqueness dies hard.”
― Tom Stoppard, Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon: A Novel

“If they are all so obsessed with change they should begin by changing for dinner.”
― Tom Stoppard, Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon: A Novel