An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.

A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.