It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.

Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.

GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear

One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.