Tom Stoppard

"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."

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

"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."

"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."

"It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture."

"You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form."