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
Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If I see an actor in a role that is really terrifying, no matter how many times I meet him socially, I'm… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It's probably unprecedented for a filmmaker simply to take the writers' script and treat it as the instructions on the package. What… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be… — 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
