The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

The actor is an athlete of the heart.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.

I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.

This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.

Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith." (Br. Cadfael)

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UCF stayed with me all the way, so I felt I should stay with them.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

Philosophy became a gloomy science, in the labyrinth of which people vainly tried to find the exit, called The Truth.

Louis Brandeis was not a racist like Woodrow Wilson.

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

Necromancer gives readers what they've long waited for -- a rousing conclusion to the trilogy begun in Nomadin and continued in NiDemon. Put this trilogy on your 'must-keep' shelf. Enjoy!

Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories.