649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

Pirates could happen to anyone.

What a fine persecution - to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.

If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.