Every time you watch a performance in the theatre, you know that this is just for you, and will never be the same again. It is quite exciting for me.

Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of, and what literature reminds us of.

I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.

Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight.

It is terribly important to maintain a national identity in a way that it probably wasn't before.

You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with.

A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography and autobiography, and so that will be my next thing.

[Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience would have seen at least one of his plays.

The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret though.

In the theatre, you are in love with what is on the stage, with the moment. You just don't get that with movies or videos, or TV, where you know that what you are seeing is repeatable.

One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something.

When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

Sin may appear good. But by God's commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

The thing is, If you try to market to everyone, then you successfully market to no one.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.

I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time.

I would like to release an album that I truly believe in, thus it is hard to put a time limit on it. I want to really go deeper and discover myself again through music.

I always had that desire to become a great athlete.

The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.

While there are things with this job that remain constant, in terms of how you shoot, the actual crux of the character is always different and always evolving.