"It’s actually pretty easy to be contrarian. It’s hard to be contrarian and right."

“The dreams now were simply of staying alive.”

“My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.”

“I have seen with my own eyes how the pope was carried on the shoulders of the princes, with all the pomp, being adored in the streets by the surrounding people.”

Source : "Michael Servetus - A Solitary Quest for the Truth". Awake! magazine, pp. 18-21, May 2006.

“My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.”

“I often say that Bernhard, W.G. Sebald, and Javier Marías are my stylistic holy trinity, prose writers who amaze me with their notation of consciousness and voice.”

“You've given it some thought, you've tried to prepare as well as you can, but you're reacting to what you see so you can't really prepare that much. It's purely live broadcasting which is very nerve-wracking but hugely rewarding. The game finishes and eventually, maybe an hour later, you're all finished.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk

“Now I know why the Lord took his day off on Sunday. That must be the day he personally greets his favorites.”

Source : Jason F. Wright (2007). “The Wednesday Letters: A Novel”

“I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.”

Source : "'Becky Sharp is like me - a survivor'". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2004.