[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.

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.

You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!

Light travels halfway around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.

If you don't know how to take care of your own needs, when you try to give to others, you are giving from a bankrupt account.

When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck.

I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.

Every team member who brings intelligence, experience and passion to their creations should be called an artist or designer.

The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.

It only takes a little innovation.

Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it just adds fuel to the fire that has never been and will never be extinguished.

Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.