More From Tom Stoppard
- "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."
- "I like pop music. I consider rock ‘n’ roll to be a branch of pop music."
- "I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."
More In Cool
- "I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name."― Adela Florence Nicolson
- "L.A.’s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody’s a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor."― Shooter Jennings
- "Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons."― Will Cuppy