Drama is universal. It is a globalization of emotion.

- Always look at the full half of the glass, daughter.
- That glass is half full of shit, mom!

A tree once told another tree that he wanted to see how tall he could grow. And then its roots looked deeper in the ground for water, and its leaves changed accordingly, as did its flowers and its fruits.

Some things you take with you and some things you leave behind.

What a difficult challenge advances in communications have become in recent decades. On the one hand they are definitely bringing us closer to each other, but are they really bringing us together? Between person and person, between the Self and the Other, a technological intermediary has been introduced – an electrical spark, an electronic impulse, a network, a link, a satellite. The Hindi word upanishada means to sit near, to be near. The Self has been brought to the Other not only by words, but also by being close, by direct contact, by being together. Nothing is capable of taking the place of this experience.

Others are the mirror in which I look at myself, and which tells me who I am.

At the start of the origin of awareness of the self lies the presence of you, and perhaps even the presence of a more general we. Only in dialogue, in argument, in opposition, and also in aspiring towards a new community is awareness of my self created, as a self-contained being, separate from another. I know that I am, because I know that another is.

For me the world has always been a great Tower of Babel. However, it is a tower in which God has mixed not just the languages but also the cultures and customs, passions and interests, and whose inhabitant He has made into an ambivalent creature combining the Self and non-Self, himself and the Other, his own and the alien.

Heredotus was aware of man's sedentary nature and realized that to get to know Others you must set off on a journey, go to them, and show a desire to meet them; so he kept travelling, visiting the Egyptians and the Scythians, the Persians and the Lydians, remembering everything he heard from them, as well as what he saw for himself. In short, he wanted to know them because he understood that to know ourselves we have to know Others, who act as the mirror in which we see ourselves reflected; he knew that to understand ourselves better we have to understand Others, to compare ourselves with them, to measure ourselves against them. As a citizen of the world, he did not believe that we should isolate ourselves from Others, or slam the gates in their faces. Xenophobia, Herodotus implied, is a sickness of people who are scared, suffering an inferiority complex, terrified by the prospect of seeing themselves in the mirror of the culture of Others.

If I made it home, anyone can make it home.

Everything seems impossible until it's done.