"Suspend judgment until you see the end of the situation."

“Much that is natural, to the will must yield. Men manufacture both machine and soul, And use what they imperfectly control To dare a future from the taken routes.”

Source : Thom Gunn (2010). “The Sense of Movement”, p.6, Faber & Faber

“A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.”

“Theater isn't there to provide answers. Only possibilities. I just ask the questions. But I believe hope comes from the fact that there is a potential for redemption. At the core, that's what matters in the theater I'm attracted to. Do we dare to hope? Do we allow ourselves to hope?”

“Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary.”

“The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.”

“At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.”

“The face staring back at me isn't beautiful but she isn't something that would scare the horses, either.”

“The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.”