“Hamlet can be a political or philosophical or poetic work or all of these or none of them, complete or incomplete, shocking or unsuccessful - however, under no circumstances can we, no matter how we handle it, neglect this troubled yet intensely felt relationship with the absolute that I mentioned earlier.

The central, I believe, question of Hamlet, to be or not to be, which condenses (and I would say cancels out, postpones) all his anxiety, conceals another more fundamental, much more agonizing - I would define it as practical - question! How to live. Hamlet has no place to live, he will never find one, from the beginning to the end of the drama, because no use of the world is good.”