If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation. Tom Stoppard Age
When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process. Tom Stoppard Music
Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night. Tom Stoppard Car
If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave a white hole in the page. And I think it's a very healthy attitude to take to writing anything. Tom Stoppard Attitude
When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all. Tom Stoppard Poetry
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. Tom Stoppard Art
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. Tom Stoppard Change
For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge. Tom Stoppard Knowledge
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process. Tom Stoppard Nature
It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator. Tom Stoppard Happiness