Now for a handful of guilders I happen to have a private…

If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.

— Tom Stoppard

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

— Tom Stoppard

We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out…

— 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

You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.

— Tom Stoppard

For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him…

— Tom Stoppard

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

— Tom Stoppard

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the…

— Tom Stoppard

“What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard…

— Tom Stoppard

For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child.…

— Tom Stoppard

The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people…

— Tom Stoppard

After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

— Tom Stoppard

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

— Tom Stoppard

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter…

— Tom Stoppard

There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

— Tom Stoppard