When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Transcendence: that which transcends experience.

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.