To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness.

Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.

This is the biggest problem in analytics today.

You'll be perfect when you're dead

The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away.

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

You can't be a human without seeing.

I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow.

That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.

We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.