Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.
I've studied the game in every different aspect that I can.
It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inciting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards, have passed like the iron atoms of the blood into my mental constitution.
It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity.
At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.
I don't know really. I've always been interested in the small picture instead of the big one, and I've always been interested in relationship pictures.
A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.
I went to the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, which was great but very different from a typical university. They sat us down in the first week and said: if you want to party, you've come to the wrong place. There was no lie-ins or skipping lectures.
