If the artist reflects only his own culture, then his works will die with that culture. But if his works reflect the eternal and universal, they will revive.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

Art is communication.

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grade of God.

Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning.

Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that "the people" do no want freedom.

I love my BlackBerry, I love my Apple Mac, I love technology.

Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.

To be honest with you, being Bruce isn't easy.

Some of them relate to farts but they are not fart jokes. They would just be a fart in the joke but it's about something else.

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

Bad things happen, it's your job to overcome them.

I'm an action fanatic.

A play that works well and is done quite a lot - I've never done the math - but it's probably more remunerative than a movie.

One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.