When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe.

It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.