The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills.

Your mom's a discrepancy.

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

A warp," Nita whispered. "A tunnel through space-time. Are you a white hole?" It stopped bobbing, stared at her as if she had said something derogatory. (Do I look like a hole?)

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

I am held by the creator of the world. I am opening, I am unbounded, I am luminous, I am powerful.

I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.