That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.

I'm sort of a Freudian about theater; it's always a struggle between freedom and security, between 'Do I stay where I am with my family because I love them or do I follow the thing that makes my heart feel the greatest?'

Lessons taught but never learned,all around us anger burns.Guide the future by the past.Long ago the mould was cast.

Don't spend too much time looking in the past otherwise you are bound to repeat the same mistakes. Look towards your future with a firm grip on lessons learned

Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.

The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'