I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays. Tom Stoppard More Quotes by Tom Stoppard More Quotes From Tom Stoppard I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none of it, but that's not true. Tom Stoppard cutting feel-good thinking What did you have in mind? A short, blunt human pyramid? Tom Stoppard blunt pyramids mind The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism. Tom Stoppard technology self science Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society. Tom Stoppard optimal wells believe If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true. Tom Stoppard untrue enough said A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it. Tom Stoppard stories interesting thinking I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him. Tom Stoppard proud giving thinking War is capitalism with the gloves off. Tom Stoppard capitalism gloves war 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! Tom Stoppard clothes different science 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. Tom Stoppard left people world If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans! Tom Stoppard fields would-be world You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics? Tom Stoppard philosophy history art A circle is the longest distance to same point. Tom Stoppard distance philosophy art "The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours. Tom Stoppard philosophy history art Public postures have the configuration of private derangement. Tom Stoppard configuration posture On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night. Tom Stoppard rip fire night Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does. Tom Stoppard artist mean art It would have been nice to have had unicorns. Tom Stoppard unicorn has-beens nice Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to anyone- it doesn't catch them unawares and start the whisper in their skulls that says- 'One day you are going to die. Tom Stoppard one-day skulls home Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then? Tom Stoppard conspiracy england believe
