Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament. — 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
