If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
