Mac

“...you can't get rid of Shakespeare without abolishing the very notion of literature.”
― Frank Kermode, Shakespeare's Language

“Of course we all know that in rehearsal, without costume or make-up or scenery or lights, with just close attention on what's going on, a play is often revealed more excitingly than when it's dolled up and put into the theatre.”
― Ian McKellen, Ian McKellen on Macbeth: Performing Shakespeare

“What is love, in the end? Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else's journey through life?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow