Tom Stoppard

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 - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

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.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

The days of the digital watch are numbered.
Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.
Tom Stoppard - "Artist Descending a Staircase"
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 - Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

- Tom Stoppard