I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small.

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.

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.

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.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.

It's just a horrible thing to keep saying to a woman, do you want a baby inside you? I mean, it's creepy.

Release yourself from the power you've invested in your mirror and those around you - take control of who you are and how you feel!

The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response than to send the right message.

My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.

Long week. Long month. Long life.

Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.

The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.

I brake for brunettes.

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.