Tom Stoppard
» Age and Aging » “Age is a high price to pay for maturity.”
» Beginning » “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.”
» Eternity » “Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it going to end?”
» Journalism and Journalists » “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.”
» Knowledge » “It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.”
» Life and Living » “Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.”
» Newspapers » “The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.”
» Quotations » “It is better to be quotable than to be honest.”
» Responsibility » “Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.”
» Revolutions and Revolutionaries » “Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.”
» Sports » “I don’t think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.”
» Tragedies » “The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.”
» Voting » “It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.”
