A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
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.
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
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 better to be quotable than to be honest.
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
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.
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
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.
The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
We're actors. We're the opposite of people.
What a fine persecution - to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
Stoppard's first major play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) is a comedy which centres on two minor characters from Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet.
He has published just one novel, Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (1966).
He left school at the age of seventeen to take a job as a journalist on the Bristol newspaper Western Daily Press.
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