Some dreams, some poems, some musical phrases, some pictures, wake feelings such as one never had before, new in colour and form—spiritual sensations, as it were, hitherto unproved

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

Oblige me by telling me where I am.""That is impossible. You know nothing about whereness. The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.

Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from peoples heads

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

You definitely shouldn't watch the special features before you watch the actual series.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.

I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries.

If you listen to [Donald] Trump, he's going to make sure we get our jobs back from Mexico, and jobs back from China. Now, he's mentioned Vietnam, we're going to get the jobs back from Vietnam.