Tom Stoppard

Beauty is a promise of happiness.

To be alive is to be afraid of dying, but to die is to be unafraid of anything.

The only true immortality lies in posterity.

I don't think truth is a simple thing.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many more people involved.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

Good writing is like water from a fountain, it keeps coming.

I am a Czech, born in Slovakia, who fled to England during the war, and became an Englishman by naturalization.

Theater is the art of the possible.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

I write plays for the stage, not for the page.

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

In an age of hope, beginners may be forgiven every error.

Consciousness is the greatest mystery.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

I've always been interested in the interface between science and art.

To be uncertain is to be alive.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.