I care about doing the work as best as I can do, and that it should go on reaching people. It's not about fame and it's not about me. It's about creating something that might allow someone else to create something.

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

There's no such thing as effortless beauty - you should know that. There's no effort which is not beautiful - lifting a heavy stone or loving you. Loving you is like lifting a heavy stone. It would be easier not to do it and I'm not quite sure why I am doing it. It takes all my strength and all my determination, and I said I wouldn't love someone again like this. Is there any sense in loving someone you can only wake up to by chance?

This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.

You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.

Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.