I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.

He says, You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor , your shoes might be broken , but your mind is a palace.

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

There were positive things about the church, that is, in the European cultural sense, the architecture, the liturgy, the music, the art, such as it was, the stations of the cross in the church, the tradition, and the atmosphere of awe and mystery in the mass. The atmosphere of miracle, one of mainly mystery, that's what fascinates me.