In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.

Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.

Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.

Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.