History is the seed bed of the future.
The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.
Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.
It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.
If you're not filled back up quickly, you might collapse like a birthday balloon". I guess that's why acting is so addictive. For the director, that addiction will come from the love and trust he gets from the "orchestra", him being the conductor. That's why many directors fall in love with their leading ladyman: having someone say "how do you want me to be" is incredible.
The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was the worst political and economic mistake in American history in the last 100 years.
You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft.
Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament.