Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.
If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it.
I don't get 'shark' - but who cares!
I'm about to be shot 150 feet up in the air. I feel queasy!
A tennis racket makes a great fake guitar!
If I see a cool chick in the street, I'll watch her going by, won't I?
Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird.
Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.
I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
I've been working in theater, really, since about 1965. I started working with the Mabou Mines about then, and in a way I've always worked in the theater, but it's never been a main part of my work. And it wasn't until Einstein that I kind of shifted into high gear with theater, working with Bob, with Bob Wilson. And since then I find it a very attractive form to work in. It's just an extension of my work.
The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.