We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.

Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

I am not famous for anything in particular. I am just famous.