Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.
Tom Stoppard

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
Tom Stoppard

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
Tom Stoppard

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
Tom Stoppard

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 Stoppard

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Tom Stoppard

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
Tom Stoppard

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

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
Tom Stoppard

The days of the digital watch are numbered.
Tom Stoppard

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
Tom Stoppard

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
Tom Stoppard

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Tom Stoppard

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.
Tom Stoppard