If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.

I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

It's true, I don't like the real world.

Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.

It was unbelievable. She was standing there, staring at him like he was a real rock star.

Feelings are something you have

One cannot trust a path, because the path is different for each person who takes it. One can only trust a person to choose the path that best represents their values and experiences.

I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.

Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I, Seeing that our footing on the Earth is brief- Seeing that her multitudes sweep out to die Mocking at all that passes their belief.

You know, the thing that I do to waste time is think of things I want to make. That's how my mind is employed.

Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.

If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.