Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In the end, one has to feel lucky that things fell out O.K. I've felt that all the years I've been writing… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
To wrap up the idea of 'Parade's End' in a sentence or two, I would say it's a love story in which… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it;… — 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
