I Had To Paraphrase The Paraphrase.

There Is No Humiliation Worse Than The Consciousness Of A Wasted Life. It Stains The Spirit, Forestalls Hope, And Destroys Any Motive For Action Or Change.

I Wanted To Be A Poet When I Was 20; I Had No Interest In Fiction Or Biography And Precious Little Interest In History, But Those Three Elements In My Life Have Become The Most Important.

To Watch King Lear Is To Approach The Recognition That There Is Indeed No Meaning In Life, And That There Are Limits To Human Understanding.

One Can Forgive Shakespeare Anything, Except One's Own Bad Lines.

As A Londoner I Was Able To See How The World Of Power And Money Cast Its Shadow On Those Who Failed.