I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light. — 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
