I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.

You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite.

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.