Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. Theres huge, visionary poetry in it. – Simon Callow
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown. – Simon Callow
I dont practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation. – Simon Callow
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation. – Jonathan Sacks