Tom Stoppard

Uncertainty is the normal state.

— Tom Stoppard

I don't feel like a Londoner.

— Tom Stoppard

I always loved rock 'n' roll.

— Tom Stoppard

Pirates could happen to anyone.

— Tom Stoppard

My scripts are possibly too talkative.

— Tom Stoppard

I'm not interested in clothes; I just like them.

— Tom Stoppard

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

— Tom Stoppard

It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth.

— Tom Stoppard

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

— Tom Stoppard

Every exit is an entry to somewhere else.

— Tom Stoppard

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

— Tom Stoppard

I write out of my intellectual experience.

— Tom Stoppard

It would have been nice to have had unicorns.

— Tom Stoppard

Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.

— Tom Stoppard

My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely.

— Tom Stoppard

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get…

— Tom Stoppard

I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.

— Tom Stoppard

No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

— Tom Stoppard

Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.

— Tom Stoppard

There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.

— Tom Stoppard

I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.

— Tom Stoppard

“HANNAH: Don't let Bernard get to you. It's only performance art, you know. Rhetoric, they used to teach it in ancient times,…

— Tom Stoppard

The whole thing about writing a play is that it's all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to…

— Tom Stoppard

In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed.…

— Tom Stoppard

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could…

— Tom Stoppard

One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to…

— Tom Stoppard

The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if…

— Tom Stoppard

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's…

— Tom Stoppard

A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts.…

— Tom Stoppard

“LADY CROOM: …My lake is drained to a ditch for no purpose I can understand, unless it be that snipe and curlew…

— Tom Stoppard

Autumnal -- nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day ...…

— Tom Stoppard

“We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be…

— Tom Stoppard

A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest…

— Tom Stoppard

The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your…

— Tom Stoppard

“GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that…

— Tom Stoppard

“Wheels have been set in motion, and they have their own pace, to which we are...condemned. Each move is dictated by the…

— Tom Stoppard

“Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our drift…

— Tom Stoppard

In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.

— Tom Stoppard

It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.

— Tom Stoppard

I would count myself as a friend of Vaclav Havel.

— Tom Stoppard