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

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

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

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.

I will not go back. No bad thing for me to die. I will make it happen so that it happens only once.

Reading is entering into another world and leaving a little bit more educated when finished.

Often change yourself, when you see that people envy you : they will start to change themselves too, but at that time YOU will not envy them...

I'm not a competitive person, so I don't feel any pressure to win. I won't sink into a depression if we don't win.

The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it.

There is no such thing as time for those who are happy. For the others - there is nothing else.

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.