If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and in some indescribable way lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country's people as much as a moving love story.

I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.

Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.

It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.