One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have… — 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
The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after… — 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… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It's very common for people to recommend something to me because they're going on what I've already written, when, what really is… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Possibly because I did start off as a journalist, my starting point has always been that you've got to keep an audience… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It's probably unprecedented for a filmmaker simply to take the writers' script and treat it as the instructions on the package. What… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your… — 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
