Back in the East you cant do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power. – Tom Stoppard
I like pop music. I consider rock n roll to be a branch of pop music. – Tom Stoppard
Its not the voting thats democracy its the counting. – Tom Stoppard
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldnt sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future. – Tom Stoppard
I was delighted to not go to university. I couldnt wait to be out of education. – Tom Stoppard
I dont act, I dont direct, I dont design. – Tom Stoppard
A healthy attitude is contagious but dont wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. – Tom Stoppard
You cant but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because its a narrative art form. – Tom Stoppard
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall its a painting, and if you can walk around it its a sculpture. – Tom Stoppard
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember Ive liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. – Tom Stoppard
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful. – Tom Stoppard
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. – Tom Stoppard
Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society. – Tom Stoppard
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe – responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. – Tom Stoppard
I write out of my intellectual experience. – Tom Stoppard
Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change. – Tom Stoppard
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. – Tom Stoppard
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. – Tom Stoppard
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. – Tom Stoppard
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. – Tom Stoppard
