I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience.

The portable animal statuettes were therefore far more than decorative trinkets: they were reified three-dimensional spirit animals with all their prophylactic and other powers.

I do know something. Just not with any certainty.

Ease leads to habit, as success to ease. He lives by rule who lives himself to please.

The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.

It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.

Where there is no respect for life, there you will find evil.

Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment

Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again.