He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son: all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

I understand his longing for immortality : Willy's writing his name in a cake of ice on a hot day, but he wishes he were writing in stone.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

Having a child changes every aspect of your life - for the better, of course. The sacrifices are large, but what you get in return is even bigger than the sacr…

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

... after you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of Earth ? ... What moment for you defines wh…