"most of the propositions I'm interested in have been kidnapped and dressed up by academic philosophy, but they are in fact the kind of proposition that would occur to any intelligent person in his bath."
"in a ridiculous philosophy\logic\math kick. I don't know how I got into it, but you should see me [...] following"
"2,000 years of philosophy in an hour - it was rather brilliant - just to explain what the debate was and why it was dramatically exciting."
"Look at the Jones's pretending to get all the jokes in a Stoppard play."
Tom Stoppard was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful playwright whose work earned Tony Awards from 1968 to 2023. He was born Tomáš Strausler in Zlín, Czechoslovakia, in 1937 and fled with his Jewish family to India and then England during the Nazi occupation. He became a journalist instead of attending university and formed friendships with Nobel laureates, presidents and cultural figures such as Mick Jagger. The term "Stoppardian" entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 1978 to denote his distinctive wit and intellectual curiosity. Philosophical ideas underpin his plays, which reference many major philosophers and treat complex debates as theatrical material. He expected an inquisitive, well-read audience and often condensed long philosophical histories into concise dramatic explanations.
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