I arrive at the theatre four hours before the beginning of the performance. I must get accustomed to the hall even if I know it well.

It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeling of being loved.

Love in capital letters is important. It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeling of being loved. All artists need love - from the audience, friends and relatives. But true and faithful friends are exceptionally rare.

My songs always speak of love, that's the way I like them.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

Each person creates boundaries and walls around the self - this often keeps even happiness at bay.

I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you're interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may - and from my experience probably will - protest your portrait of them.

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.