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I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.

I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.

People think I'm very nice, you know. And I'm not as nice as they think.

When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process.

From Tom Stoppard

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

From Tom Stoppard

I'm not interested in clothes; I just like them.

From Tom Stoppard

When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was was secondary. I wanted it to be in hardback. I didn't care how thick or thin it was, and I didn't actually care what it was about.

From Tom Stoppard

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'

From Tom Stoppard

It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant.

From Tom Stoppard

Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.

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