Tom Stoppard

It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that…

— Tom Stoppard

I am good at being shown something and counterpunching.

— Tom Stoppard

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

— Tom Stoppard

I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the…

— Tom Stoppard

I write out of my intellectual experience.

— Tom Stoppard

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around…

— Tom Stoppard

If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not…

— Tom Stoppard

I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism.

— Tom Stoppard

Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.

— Tom Stoppard

“(Words) deserve respect. Get the right ones in the right order, and you can nudge the world a little.”

— Tom Stoppard

Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach…

— Tom Stoppard

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

— Tom Stoppard

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

— Tom Stoppard

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

I would count myself as a friend of Vaclav Havel.

— Tom Stoppard

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

— Tom Stoppard

Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of…

— Tom Stoppard

“I extract significance from melodrama, a significance which it does not in fact contain; but occasionally, from out of this matter, there…

— Tom Stoppard

My father was a doctor in Moravia, in the south of the country. There were a number of Jewish doctors in the…

— Tom Stoppard

There would be this algebraic equation with an equals sign in the middle, and all the components would have different letters of…

— Tom Stoppard

“I fell in love with literature and stayed lovesick all my life.”

— Tom Stoppard

I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work…

— Tom Stoppard

Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.

— Tom Stoppard

I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers.

— Tom Stoppard

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

— Tom Stoppard