Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.

I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.