Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.

There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.

English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.

It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.

There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.