You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.

The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.

The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

I'm very comfortable in the air. And if you're really in love with flight, you're in love to a certain extent with being outside of the body, not grounded. The problem is, if you're not in your body,...

I am a sort of justice fanatic, and I always have to give a voice to those who get a raw deal.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human...

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

I do believe that there are monsters out there - and that they are monsters.

My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, there's a poetic...

Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'

I remember the kind of teenager I was, the kind of teenager I wanted to be, and then the kind of teenagers that were all around me. Life is lived on such a big scale in those years - and such an...

I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.

Sociopaths don't have feelings; they can't.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

The smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying...

They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of...

I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice.

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

I was obsessed with everything about 'Outlander' - the stories, the way it looked. I thought, 'You know what? I'm going to go to Scotland, and I'm going to find my own 'Outlander.''

I've always viewed 'Sons of the Prophet' as the first part of a larger trilogy - not three plays dependent on each other but three stand-alone plays connected by theme and, likely, further adventures...

Music serves truth to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at the same time, to hopefully see yourself in its fragility.

When you destroy a population, once femicide happens, we're going to see the end of humanity, because I don't know how you sustain a future without vitalized women.

First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a microphone. No podium, no distance between me and the audience, and I just talk to people and get all...

I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.