The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

[Miller, whose profile eerily matches early portraits of Byron, skillfully blends his restless passion and moments of sour self-awareness. Byron is caustic about his future wife from the first, noting that he would] like her...

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

I’m his friend, I’m his guarantor.

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

I’ve opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I’d have the power to do what I like. It’s not true.

Serbia has no right, under national or international law, to Kosovo.

The British and American governments are about to destroy all hopes for peace anywhere in our world for ever. This war has already begun.

This is censorship of the worst kind.

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.

Ask the right questions if you’re to find the right answers.

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.