649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.

I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.

A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.

A free press needs to be a respected press.

I don't find it easy to think of good stuff to write about.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

I don't draw on my inner life in my work.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.