649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

I really just like to be at a desk.

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. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.

We must be born with an intuition of mortality.

I proudly tell people, 'I have no computer,' so as not to be ashamed of having no computer.

One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time.

On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.

In my mind, I always knew what my father looked like.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations; for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal; for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.