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To me, strange is just another way of saying unusual. And unusual is just another way of saying special
I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.
Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.
There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
I think we have a tendency in America to keep dividing ourselves, separating ourselves from each other.
Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.
What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.
Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.
There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.
As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.
Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war.
I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it.
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book
And what did you do last night, Dexter? Oh, I played with my dolls while a friend chopped up my sister.
But of course, there's no rest for the wicked, which I certainly am; as I said, no rest for the wicked.
A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
The problem's always been to deal with the fear.Cos the fear is pretty . . . it ruins everybody really.
Very hard to get an audience. So if you're going to fill the theatre, you can't just rely on old stuff.
But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.
Is it every man and woman's curse to want it all and only get ten percent of it? Or do we ask too much?
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though.
Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.
My characters don't talk necessarily in a normal American way of talking. They talk a little different.
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.
If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.
For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.
A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good
A people who`s primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time.
I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.
O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant
Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
It's so funny, I'm always stealing from Moliere, and nobody ever notices. I steal from him willy-nilly.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.
And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute.