Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last.

We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.

My scripts are possibly too talkative.

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

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

Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king." "Yes." "Unorthodox.