Alfred de Vigny

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a cocoon.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.