I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.

I hope I died honorably. I have a great deal to atone for. - Eler Nersal

As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.

We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in which we become what we see or hear.

I believe in the directorial point of view and directorial choices.

Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.