I am in the present and only the present matters to me

I hate the word 'production'...it's a ceremony, it's a ritual...you should go out of the theatre stronger and more human than when you went in.

Theatre is not supposed to represent psychology but passions, which is totally different. Its role is to represent the soul's different emotional states, and those of the mind, the world history.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

You know how there are words that never really—they are never really quite right. You can't quite trust them. Use them. You know. Without p

Our beliefs about the sources of joy are frequently experienced as colored imaginations that captivate our hearts.

The man spends half of his life trying, and the other half is preventing.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

With this kind of camera-phone madness we have got, moments are diluted into self-contained edited experiences.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Every great movement and which the conservative movement is, of course, every great movement ends up being a little bit sclerotic and dusty after a time and I think they need new fusion of energy.

The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.