Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do.

The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination.

If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.

Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.

The best laughs are on the recognition of truth.

None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.

If you believe you're good already, you don't need to do extra stuff to impress us. Your best work comes when you're absorbed; because then your ego is away.

In life most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. Bad improvisers block action often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

Enjoy things even when you’re screwing up.

Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.

[On marriage and permanent attach

Jesus takes the chaos of the world upon Himself.

He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.

It's possible to be thankful wherever you find yourself.

That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.

In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.

A film is a terrible thing to waste.

The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.