Tom Stoppard

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

Don't you see!? We're actors — we're the opposite of people!

The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important.  I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you.  Not the way you want to live.  The way I want to live with you.  Without you I wouldn't care.  I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes.  But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me.

There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Every exit is an entry somewhere.

I disagree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.

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

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.