American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.

I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.

It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.