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.

If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there’d be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.

We’ve traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.

The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it’s trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren’t supposed to be in that part of the plan.

The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about – clouds – daffodils – waterfalls – what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in – these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.

There’s something scary about stupidity made coherent.

Traitors hoist by their own petard? – or victims of the gods? – we shall never know!

I write fiction because it’s a way of making statements I can disown.

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn’t ever get to meet.