Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.