Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.

To me, the hope lies in adults forgetting about their retirement and turning toward the adolescents and helping pull the adolescents over that mysterious line drawn on the ground into adulthood. If we don't do that, the adolescents are going to stay exactly where they are for the next 30 or 40 years.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards.

People tend to take stories literally these days.