I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.

I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

We must be born with an intuition of mortality.