Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning

Death and madness are his only mistresses.

Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating.

Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.

The Keystone Pipeline decision has taken longer than it took us to defeat Hitler

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

That's a beautiful purse. I carry a satchel.

Women only love those that they don’t know.

And that is what radio-activity is, a quick return to the state of rest which underlies the spiritual or invisible universe.