I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“HANNAH: Don't let Bernard get to you. It's only performance art, you know. Rhetoric, they used to teach it in ancient times,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man? — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite… — 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
In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Inside where nothing shows, I am the essence of a man spinning double-headed coins, and betting against himself in private atonement for… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our drift… — 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
