We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

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.

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.

The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform.