There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.

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.

I just tripped over a pair of shoes and almost fell down and broke my neck and no I wasn't wearing them.

After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book!

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

We may faint and we may sink Feel the pain and near the brink But the dark begins to shrink When you find the one who knows

There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They're very, very precious to me.

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

I'm washing lettuce. Soon, I'll be on fries. In a few years, I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.