"And weep the more, because I weep in vain."

“I don't know the difference between a warm color and a cool one.”

“Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight.”

Source : "No escape" by David Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2006.

“The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.”

Source : "Nicholas Stern: We must not give in to pessimism" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2009.

“That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.”

“Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.”

“Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.”

“Really what Brutus and Cassius do by assassinating Caesar, is open up a vacuum into which much more ruthless people run. Julius Caesar is an amazingly contemporary, resonant, politically astute play.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I love visiting LA. It's an endlessly fascinating city, and is, of course, America's entertainment capital. Each time I go, I fall in love with it all over again. That said, it's not the sort of place I'd want to live.”