“I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!”

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

“The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.”

“We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.”

“If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.”

“A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.”

“There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.”

“To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!”

“Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?”

“I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!”

“Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.”