Life consists of burning up questions.

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.

The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that if you let it alone it will let you alone.

I hope people remember me for the kind of person that I am, not because of what I do.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.

The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts.

The rattling of the relays of the Z4 was the only interesting thing to be experienced in Zurich's night life!

A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.

No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.

I'm the Chairman Emeritus, and according to my contract I am supposed to devote 10% of my time to working for Marvel... and the rest of my time, I can do anything that I wish.