Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.

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.

Dominate in your domain You can do it.

I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body.

Grace is goodness.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

The one way the world hasn't changed: teaching is still the most important job.

Thank you Madonna and fans for an experience of a lifetime!

Men are fine, love is fine, it's marriage I'm a little disappointed in.

Whether you want to be the top violinist or a CEO, strangely enough, hard work and perseverance can overcome a lot of things.

I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

I'm so afraid to love you, But more afraid to lose. Clinging to a past that doesn't let me chose.