Tom Stoppard1937–2025- Artist Descending a Staircase (1972)
- Interview with Janet Watts in The Guardian (21 March 1973)
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966), p. 63
- Jumpers (1972), Act I
Eternity’s a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it all going to end?
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966), p. 71My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (1966), Ch. 2: A Couple of Deaths and ExitsI write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
“Tom Stoppard,” profile by Kenneth Tynan, The New Yorker (19 December 1977)- Travesties (1974), Act I
- Night and Day (1978), Act I
- The Real Thing (1982), Act II, scene V
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify — capriciously — their urge for immortality.
Travesties (1974), Act I
