If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

- Tom Stoppard

It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.

- Tom Stoppard

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

- Tom Stoppard

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

- Tom Stoppard

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

- Tom Stoppard

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us mod…

- Tom Stoppard

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

- Tom Stoppard

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a…

- Tom Stoppard

Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges a…

- Tom Stoppard