I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad… — 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
When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it;… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at… — 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
