For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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 thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much. — 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
For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It's very common for people to recommend something to me because they're going on what I've already written, when, what really is… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem. — 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
I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to… — 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
