You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.

When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.

Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen through each other.

The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us or the pain against which it can protect us.

If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.

Depression is a choice.

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.

The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer.

After listening to "Machine Gun" I have to take a nap.

I think we should do meditation and yoga at work.

I had a lovely time growing up.

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.