The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
Tom StoppardThere must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.
Tom StoppardAll your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.
Tom StoppardIn the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
Tom Stoppard