The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.
We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
I'm obsessed with the mess that's America.
All that waiting around for a glimmer of stage time, just getting angry every week. . . It was just an oppressive, horrible, horrible place to be. I went to work feeling nauseous.
I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.