There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books are activities that you do after-hours, rather than things that are at the heart of life. That's a huge change.

There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pain.

I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.

There are voices and they must be heard.