The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.
Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
My only politics have been friendship.
Art is science in the flesh.
We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.