649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.

I can't remember what my first script was.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material.

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.