Oh, come off it, I've only directed three plays for the RSC.

I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.

I hate getting bored.

While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong.

Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone.

I'd love to do some new plays.

Oh, come off it, I've only directed three plays for the RSC.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go.

Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is - my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful.

We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays.

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.

Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time.

Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.

When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.

Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking youve got to have a what the hell attitude.

Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.

My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment.

One deceit needs many others and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.

I've never been ambitious.

I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.

I get e-mail from all over the world, and from lawyers and doctors and whoever - plumbers and drywall hangers.

His insomnia was so bad he couldnt sleep during office hours.

There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.

In for a penny, in for a pound

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.

Adaptability is crucial to working on Glee because every day is adapting to something. Because we're doing a different genre of music, doing a different type of scene with a different scene partner, recording and dance rehearsals... no day is like another.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Whatever happens with my career, I'm going to prosper no matter what.

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they only print your thumbs.