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

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

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 see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

You are strong enough to sing as you wish, not as your pain has forced to. You aren't your hurt. You're other than that. You are not the broken things you've been.

a discussion about the miraculous quickly devolves to an argument about whether or not one is willing to consider any possibility whatsoever of the supernatural

Nobody ever feels they’re doing well with teenagers, ” he said. “I think that’s kind of the point of them.

Real change begins with ridding Washington of corruption, of which there's plenty going around.

But though that place I never gain, Herein lies comfort for my pain: I will be worthy of it.

It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.

My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.

Knowledge is speaking, wisdom is listening

Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers.

Wild Thing made their hearts sing. But he couldn't top everything.