Grouping and mutuality of countries and peoples in the Balkans is the only road that leads to economic, national and political liberation.
I've been going to Bamburgh for holidays since I was a child.
With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same.
I'm very good at being out of work.
People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.
With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.
You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.
Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast.
. . . a point is reached where the self is so completely aligned with the still-point that it can no longer be moved, even in its first movements, from this center. It can no longer be tested by any force or trial, nor moved by the winds of change, and at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it.
I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.
All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.