It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

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.

He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.

Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.

We became the songs we wrote.

God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.

Don't let your imagination take you by surprise.

Honest people, knowledgeable people, really well-informed people can have very different views about what the right measures are on national security.

Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.

He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.

I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.

When I'm with Purple, I'm totally with Purple; when I'm doing my thing, I'm totally doing my own thing.