Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.

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.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.

You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.

A change of style is a change of meaning.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

My uncle was an Elvis impersonator - his name was Perry, and he went by 'Elvis Perry' - and my work as a wedding singer landed me a spot in his act.

I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

Who are they to judge us, simply because our hair is long?

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.

Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making.