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My Constanze is the virtuous, honourable, discreet, and faithful darling of her honest and kindly-disposed Mozart. ”
My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around. ”
I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present. ”
The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns. ”
One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking. ”
One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer. ”
I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it. ”
Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it. ”
There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience. ”
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. ”