When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.

The church is the gym of the soul.

Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.

When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders.

The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don't need a gimmick; it's just man against man and their intolerance of each other.

If you come into my house, I'm going to fight much more viciously to get you out than if we were on a neutral piece of land.

You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it's thankless and fruitless and you can't accomplish much.