We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

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.

Umbrella is comfort, rain is life! You must often leave comfort to touch the life!

Book lovers never go to bed alone.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.

I'm still learning, but I can see there are decisions in life that are going to be very challenging and it's always better to get through them, always.

The Olivet Discourse is not about the Second Coming of Christ. It is a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

There are some films that really break the mold, and some films that don't. I've been looking for films that break the mold a bit.

Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.

Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.