That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

You have to know what you want to get it.

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

it is all the question of identity. ... As long as the outside does not put a value on you it remains outside but when it does put a value on you then it gets inside or rather if the outside puts a value on you then all your inside gets to be outside.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.