I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.