All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.

What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.

Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.

Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.

Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If you're not there your art's not there. That's why we actors are often such self-centered objects.

The perfect moment, once lost, is not easily found again.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.