It is terribly important to maintain a national identity in a way that it probably wasn't before.

I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small.

Every time you watch a performance in the theatre, you know that this is just for you, and will never be the same again. It is quite exciting for me.

There is a mental space that we consciously makes our way back to, and give honour to what has formed us in this mental homeland which we carry with us always. It is important not to try to annihilate it but to take your courage in your hands and go back, and then I think you can more easily make a new beginning. A lot of us would like to know how to do this.

In the theatre, you are in love with what is on the stage, with the moment. You just don't get that with movies or videos, or TV, where you know that what you are seeing is repeatable.

You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with.

Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight.