I'm more interested in writing than in performing.
. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and. . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained unless the significance and effects of that great fact can be grasped.
The mystics are the only ones who have gained a glimpse into what is possible when this same capacity [for creation] is used primarily in the service of the individual himself instead of for the creation of art.
The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but. . . he also desires to subdue other minds.
When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.
The artist always has been and still is a being somewhat apart from the rest of humanity.
There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.
Whoever said the soul and the body met in the pineal gland was a fool. It's the asshole, stupid.
Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff.
Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.