I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.
Tom StoppardHe's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.
Tom StoppardI think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
Tom StoppardI have to go with what I do, and what I do has more to do with what people say to each other than telling a story through images. Of course, you're trying to do both. And there are some people who are brilliant at it, but I don't consider myself to be particularly good at it. My mind gets into a verbal mode.
Tom Stoppard