It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be alright if you can only go to certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

I think the most fun I ever had was playing King Arthur in Spamalot on the West End.

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.

I'm grateful for any opportunity to act.

For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

I'm not the same person that I used to be.

I'm not very good on timing. In fact, I've stayed away from it.