I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

A great deal of success in life depends on the relationship you have with yourself, your partner and your money.

Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?

There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.

I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.

I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.

We create our future, by well improving present opportunities: however few and small they are.

In For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).