Tom Stoppard

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn’t wait to be out of…

Back in the East you can’t do much without the right papers, but with the…

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity…

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

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic…

I don’t act, I don’t direct, I don’t design…

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a…

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake…

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity…

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it’s…

I like pop music. I consider rock ‘n’ roll to be a branch of pop…

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts…

You can’t but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as…

A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a…

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn’t sacrifice it to future conceptions…