When the guns roar, the arts die.

The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.