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" Good things, when short, are twice as good. "

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" If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play. "

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

" Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. "

" The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live. "

" I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. "

" The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world. "

" I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over. "

" Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia. "

" I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers. "

" I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean. "

" I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained. "

" From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. "

" James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. "

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

" Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it. "

" Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me. "

" The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority. "

" We're actors. We're the opposite of people. "

" It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. "

" A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. "

" Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. "

" I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design. "

" I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition. "

" Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond. "

" One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you. "

" Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power. "

" Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it. "

" Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text. "

" Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. "

" There are too many things I find it difficult to say 'no' to. "