Tom Stoppard Quotes

Happiness is equilibrium...shift your weight.

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 entrance somewhere else.

A lot of people say, 'I would rather have a heart attack at the height of sexual passion'. I think I would prefer to be killed by a bookcase.

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.

Pirates could happen to anyone.

Sometimes I dream of revolution, a bloody coup d’etat by the second rank [...] an army of assistants and deputies, the seconds-in-command, the runners up, the right hand men - storming the palace gates wherein the second son has already mounted the throne having committed regicide with a croquet mallet! Stand ins of the world Stand Up!

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

It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing... The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about -- clouds -- daffodils -- waterfalls... these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks...It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.