The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.

Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent.

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.

I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.

That lovely things exist is a lovely thought.

How uninteresting interesting things can become.

Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it.

With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]

Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.

No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

you have to do more than just kill time or time will quickly kill you.

Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.

When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.

Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe and the culture supports them, sometimes they never have to think about it at all.

The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of the inequalities and diversities of the universe.

What's the point of beauty if it's only seen by one?