Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience..

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization..

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audi….

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience..

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play..

I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information ove….

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky..

You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army..

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do..

Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of hi….

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit..

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response,….

I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high schoo….

I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educat….

I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't….

I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, biza….

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves..

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over….

It's true, I don't like the real world..

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life..