When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you dont feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once thats all done, trust comes in. – Itzhak Perlman
And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that Im probably regarded as quite prickly to work with. – Jeremy Irons
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us. – Geraldine Brooks
I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated “all my homosexual patients are quite sick” — to which I finally replied “so are all my heterosexual patients.” – Ernest van den Haag (1914–2002)
