Tom Stoppard

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

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've 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.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.