I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.

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.

Music is the melody that longs to be heard by someone who can appreciate it.

History didn’t always predict the future. You had to live it one day at a time to find out what happened next.

Words of affection howsoe'er expressed The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

I wish I could make the statement that 'the odds were against me but you never quit', It was not true. I wanted to give up.

The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.

Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer."

Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.

All great peoples are conservative.

What's the ultimate price I'll pay if I don't stop this indulgence now? By asking questions like this, they'll associate pain to overeating, and their behavior will change immediately.