The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting… — 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
Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean. — 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
Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um… — 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
