My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
Tom StoppardI like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
Tom StoppardLife in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.
Tom StoppardThey loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man in the whole world and the most wretched, and after a few years she died, and then, when he was thirty, he died, too. But by that time Catullus had invented the love poem.
Tom Stoppard