Real worship involves waiting.

It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.

We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.

My heart was beating like an army on the march.

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

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

We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.