In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being.

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.

Don't even think of arguing with me. I'm an old woman and if you fight me about it, it could give me a heart attack.

What's the point of keeping in touch with the girl you're crazy about, when you're dying?

We are chained, but you just don't realise it...

I hate when being kind and silly is mistaken for weakness. Then I have to correct them and it's a lot of hassle and I can't be nice to them again.

There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating - and then only by waiters.

Most Christians when asked what is the essence of the Christian faith will say it is all in the rules to be acceptable by God. That is anti-Christian, but they don't know that.

The rules are rather simple to understand: Under democracy you can defend any view, but only defend it. You can not try to realise it through power, violence or weapons.

The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from which every arrow of moral action flies.