649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

I smoke too much whether it's going well or badly. After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.

Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.

I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.

There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

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

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

...and for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute...