I feel comfortable now, although I am new to the Champions League. There is a lot to learn from the manager and from the players here and I am confident I can do that. I am definitely picking things up and I think I will become a better player.

We know Peter can keep the ball and give time to the others to go forward.

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.

It's a troubling paradox - I have total control, but only to the extent I have control over myself.