Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about Buddy Holly. And I loved pop bands that had absolutely no intellectual pretensions whatsoever. I loved the Monkees.Tom Stoppard
I've never really worked out this thought, and I don't know if I'm really conscious of it, but I can see there's an attraction about writing about a period that's over and isn't going to change colour while you look at it.Tom Stoppard
I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them.Tom Stoppard
My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of 1942, the Japanese invasion of Burma and Singapore had started.Tom Stoppard
One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time.Tom Stoppard
I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism.Tom Stoppard
One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.Tom Stoppard
