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Life on the planet and in our galaxy is so complex, I don't hope to have any substantial effect in it, but if I can touch a few people deep in their psyche, by making my personal subjective journey concrete for others, then I am very happy.

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I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.

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Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.

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Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.

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There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with them. I don't know if it helps my research, but I get a big kick out of Mark Twain, who wrote "The Diaries of Adam and Eve. " He wrote very funny stuff on them. I sometimes read things that are loosely related to what I'm thinking and writing about.

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The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.

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It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.

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