There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.

A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?

This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.