You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language.

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best.

Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.

I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.

If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.

The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.

I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.

I write mostly positive reviews. I don't write about places that don't interest me.

Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens.

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.