Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.Tom Stoppard
In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.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
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
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
Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.Tom Stoppard
Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that.Tom Stoppard
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.Tom Stoppard
