Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?
“Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.”
“'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.”