There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.

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.

From what you didn’t say, lies that you did say.

Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

It doesn't matter is you call it 'Obama-care' or 'Elvis Presley care' or 'I-don't-care care.' It cannot sustain itself in its present form.

You're trying to make music, and then at the end of it you give reasons for everything.

I owe the quality of my skin to my cosmetic surgeon.

If you just set people in motion, they'll heal themselves.

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.