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
I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I have to go with what I do, and what I do has more to do with what people say to each… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation. — 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
I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive.… — 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
