The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes- all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills- like a God. It ….

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a ….

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did..

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found imme….

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute..

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this wa….

Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?.

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish..

You can't always let people do their own thing..

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life..

I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a….

All reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean-hoofed on to a whole new track of being I only suspect is there. I can't s….

Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He can hardly read. He knows no….

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created..

The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults..

Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes ….

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy..

What was evident was that Mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. And finished as most music is never finished. Displ….

He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like ….

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious..