… and I’ll be happy here and happy there, fullof tea and tears

...but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it...

… my words are lovewhich willfully parades inits room, refusing to move.

willow trees, willow trees they remind me of DesdemonaI'm so damned literaryand at the same time the waters rushing past remindme of nothing

If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.

We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between.

Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

I can walk into a room with all my contemporaries and I will be very comfortable.

If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.

You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.

Everyone's journey is completely different.

What kind of society isn't structured on greed?