649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

I write out of my intellectual experience.

The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me.

Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.

I take every possible side.

There would be this algebraic equation with an equals sign in the middle, and all the components would have different letters of the alphabet. It would come out right with x+z^2+t/q=y+co, and the co would be clothes off!

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'

In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.