To wrap up the idea of 'Parade's End' in a sentence or two, I would say it's a love story in which… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge… — 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
You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was… — 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
