In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.

Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.

Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.

Facts are stubborn things.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.

The conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow.

Trust your actors. That's why I work with the same actors time and time again. I encourage them to change the dialogue to achieve one thing: keep the characters honest.

Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all.

People have the natural capacity to affirm and embrace life in the most difficult of circumstances.

The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.

Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.